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The Joy of the Flash Drive

Posted by Zonk on from the little-quiet-different dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A post to the C|Net site covers the numerous benefits of flash drives, such as speed, temperature, and battery consumption. The perk author Michael Kanellos is most fond of? The distinct lack of noise. 'The notebook I'm testing--a Dell Latitude D830 with a 64GB flash hard drive from Samsung--hasn't emitted a sound in three days. Flash drives, which store data in NAND flash memory, don't require motors or spinning platters. Thus, there are no whirring mechanical noises. Compare that with my T42 ThinkPad. It sounds like a guinea pig got trapped inside, particularly during the start-up phase. Vzoooot. Cronk, cronk, cronk. Zip, zip. (Pause.) Gurlagurlagurla...zweeee. '"

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  1. Umm.... by d474 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Vzoooot. Cronk, cronk, cronk. Zip, zip. (Pause.) Gurlagurlagurla...zweeee."

    That's the pr0n your watching, not your hard drive dude.

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    1. Re:Umm.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
      "Vzoooot. Cronk, cronk, cronk. Zip, zip. (Pause.) Gurlagurlagurla...zweeee"

      In my native country of Kazhakistan, this offend my mother and my sister. Please to not refer to their private parts with disrespect. I do not disrespect your Cmdr Taco parts. It is golden rule for information technology.

  2. 64 gig by sleeponthemic · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ought to be enough for anybody

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  3. Re:I like it. by Aeternitas827 · · Score: 4, Funny

    You mean, it's not supposed to sound like a chainsaw? Might could be my problem... Either way, nothing compares to modem noise. It's the only reason I miss dialup.

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  4. Re:I like it. by eyrieowl · · Score: 4, Funny

    you have apparently forgotten the joys of the dot matrix printer.

  5. Who cares about the HD noise by AmigaHeretic · · Score: 4, Funny

    When you have that Intel chip that needs a fan that sounds like the Swamp Boat from the WaterBoy movie with Adam Sandler.


    Every time I turn on my laptop and I hear the fan spin to life I think of that swamp boat and I can hear,

    "My Mama says that alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush."

    "Wrong! Alligators are aggressive because of an enlarged medulla oblongata."

    "No, Colonel Sanders, you're wrong. You're all wrong. Mama's right. Mama's right!"

    "Somethin' wrong with his medulla oblongata."

  6. Re:I like it. by MrNaz · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh Slashdot, unfounded conclusions and ridiculous extrapolation of benign ideas into cultish plans to consume the still warm corpses of children get you a +5.

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  7. Re:I like it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    > Why do we need freakin laser beams filling up a room when the server is running?

    The water-cooled model features sharks which swim around according to the drive activity....