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Flash Drives in Future Apple Laptops?
danscript writes "Samsung hopes that falling prices for flash-memory chips will mean solid-state memory can eventually replace hard-disk drives in Apple PowerBooks and iBooks as well as other devices, Macworld UK is reporting. The benefits? - silent; less power; reliable and faster."
Show me a flash drive that survives a couple of million write cycles, and I might consider using a flash drive instead of a normal hard drive.
Not every one is concerned about massive drive sizes. There are plenty of people who would choose the battery saving advantages of flash drives in their laptops.
I'm of the opinion that laptops should be as small and energy efficent as possible. I just don't get the point of using them desktop replacements. If you want something as huge and powerful as desktop, buy a friggin' desktop. If you want something portable, buy something portable.
I mean, what's the point of a "portable" computer if you have to plug it in all the time?!
If someone says he and his monkey have nothing to hide, they almost certainly do.
...at sequential reading. Wanna run the same test with bonnie++ or another benchmark that slams the drive with random accesses? I'll bet the near-zero seek penalty on solid state media makes up for quite a bit of its currently mediocre sequential access.
Imagine a database where you're writing millions of tiny blocks of data all over the place. Within reason, fast seeks are about as important as fast IO.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?