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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. 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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  3. 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....