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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."

5 of 378 comments (clear)

  1. Memory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I wouldn't trust simple memory chips to store my permanent data. I mean, you can switch off a hard drive and your data is intact, switch off the memory and it's all gone. In this case, all 16 GB.

    Lunacy.

  2. damn by Emblem7 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    this won't nearly fit all my porn.

  3. Re:Announces?! by TripMaster+Monkey · · Score: 0, Offtopic



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  4. Ha-ha! BUSTED! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    HAHAHA! BUSTED!

    So, you like to watch porn, eh?

  5. Re:Old News by TripMaster+Monkey · · Score: -1, Offtopic



    I'll stop overusing white space when you stop overusing that 'Submit' button.



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