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Samsung Announces Flash-Based Disk Drive

Posted by Zonk on from the whirrless-laptops dept.

doc6502 writes "Samsung has announced flash-based disk drives with a 16 GB capacity, with an aim to get the drives to market by the end of the year. The (short) article suggests that this could be a big boost to laptop owners, as battery life could be seriously extended if there isn't a big high-speed motor to power constantly. The drives should be fast, too."

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  1. The drives should be fast, too by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The have fast seek times but the slow rotational speed makes for low throughput.

  2. 16GB? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    16GB? How much is that in Libraries of Congress? Dammnit I can't understand these fancy units like these GBs!

    1. Re:16GB? by nacturation · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well, if you had 12 hogsheads of ink and wrote out the Library of Congress in a single line so that you just used up all the ink, this drive would be able to store 493 rods worth of data. I hope that clears it up.

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  3. Re:Announces?! by JanneM · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wake me up when they're introduced.

    Anita, this is Flash Drive; Flash, this is Anita.

    There, better now?

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  4. Re:Old News by X1011 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Memtech has been doing this sort of thing for a while now.

    Yea, they have the 35 inch SC3500 Sidewinder. Imagine how much data you can put on a disk that big!

  5. Re:Don't throw away your drives yet.. by Intron · · Score: 5, Funny

    "16GB ain't that much space"

    I suddenly feel very old.

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