Solid State Memory on the Rise

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Saturday January 7, 2006 @06:22PM from the fewer-moving-parts-to-break dept.

skaet writes "CNet is reporting that manufacturers of NAND flash memory are expanding the market for their chips - over the next few years - to eventually replace current methods of storage in media capture devices, mobile phones and even some notebooks as well as car navigation systems and large data storage at corporations and government agencies. From the article: 'The average notebook has 30GB (of hard drive storage). How long is it before the notebook has solid state memory? Five or six years,' according to Steve Appleton, CEO of Micron Technology, one of the world's largest memory makers. 'I'm not saying drives will go away. There will always be a need for storage, but when was the last time you tapped out a drive?'"

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I fill up drives like Wimpy eats burgers by mooncaine · 2006-01-07 19:29 · Score: 5, Interesting

I work with digital video and audio. I filled up 3 160 GB drives this year with stuff I can't delete for years, and I'll have my new 200 GB FireWire drive filled up by April. Yeah, I keep too much, but I have a lot of really, really large files.

Come tell me when they finally come out with FW3200 10 PetaByte thumb drives -- I'm going to need a few of those.