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BitMicro Takes Wraps Off 832 GB Flash Drive

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday January 7, 2008 @07:27AM from the will-only-cost-an-arm-a-leg-and-your-firstborn dept.

Lucas123 writes "BitMicro has unveiled an 832GB NAND flash drive that will begin shipping later this year. The E-Disk Altima drive is expected to have sustained read rates of up to 100MB/sec and up to 20,000 I/O operations per second. The device features a SATA 3.0 G/bps interface. No pricing as of yet."

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Re:hmm. by easyTree · 2008-01-07 07:43 · Score: 5, Insightful

Now tell me why anybody should want this outside of the media/video industry...
To lower power consumption/size/weight of laptops?

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Re:832? by mr_mischief · 2008-01-07 08:06 · Score: 4, Insightful

The thing is, 13's not exactly a power of two. To access 13 modules, you'd need the same 4 control lines as 16 modules. Perhaps it's actually 16 * 64 and three are specifically for redundancy and wear leveling?