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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."

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  1. Not a moment too soon. by Bombula · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I've been looking forward to mainstream solid state drives for a long time. Especially in laptops, since the lack of moving parts presumably means no moving parts and therefore lower power consumption, longer battery life, better durability, and so on. It seems surprising that it's taken this long.

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  2. Re:Wearing out with writes? by ushering05401 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I'll join you in being O.T. The FP and my post both went up at 8:06 on exactly the same subject.

    Kinda annoying, but the mods are actually helping the conversation along by lowering our scores. I hate rereading the same thing over and over throughout a thread.