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Seagate to Offer Solid State Drives in 2008

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the takes-a-lickin' dept.

Lucas123 writes "Seagate will introduce drives based on flash memory in various storage capacities across its range of products including desktop and notebook PCs, according to Sumner Lemon at IDG News Service. The drives are expected to consume less power (longer battery life), offer faster data transfer rates and be more rugged than spinning disk, which has moving parts that can be damaged from an impact."

6 of 324 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Warranty? by absoluteflatness · · Score: 2, Funny

    It will be fine. I promise. Now there's the kind of warranty I want to include in my products.
  2. Solid state by iminplaya · · Score: 2, Funny

    How big would one of these things be if they were made using vacuum tubes?

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    1. Re:Solid state by fbjon · · Score: 4, Funny

      It would be awesome. That's the point.

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  3. Re:Warranty? by delphi125 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Next thing you'll be saying they still sell RAM sufficient for your working set.

  4. Re:Warranty? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    This has also been rehashed a million times.
    They're doing it with hash functions?
  5. Re:Warranty? by Afecks · · Score: 4, Funny

    This has also been rehashed a million times. I know.. but my brain's wear-leveler keeps storing that knowledge in random places.