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Flash Memory to Rival Hard Drives

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the solidly-stated dept.

Skal Tura writes "Samsung will start producing 16 gigabit Nand Flash chips this year, nudging the memory technology towards use in notebook PCs and maybe even edging out hard drives in some products in the next few years."

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  1. I'm not surprised by victoryfour · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Given how much more robust, stronger, longer-lifed etc flash memory is, it would be very suprising if flash memory did NOT overtake hard drives at some point soon.

  2. 16 gigabit? by Teque5 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    is it just me or is 16gigabits = 2 gigabytes? 8bits = 1byte AND - dont they already have 2gig flash chips? teque5.95mb.com

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