32 GB Flash Storage Drive Announced 381
Audrius writes to tell us TG Daily is reporting that Samsung has just announced a new 32 GB Flash storage device. The aim of this new solid state disk (SSD) drive is to completely replace the traditional hard drives in many laptops on the market. Some of the advantages offered are the 1.8" form factor, read speeds more than twice that of a normal hard drive, and the promise of 95% less power use.
Warning... (Score:5, Funny)
Old news (Score:2, Funny)
Ohhh, G i g a b y t e s - thougt it said megaby...
Re:Interesting .... (Score:5, Funny)
NO NO NO NO NO! (Score:5, Funny)
I'm trying to close on buying a house! And Samsung, Apple's iPod Nano flash supplier comes out with this?
APPLE, please PLEASE do not come out with an Intel Mac portable featuring a flash drive (with its tasty power consumption, lower power and low low low seek times) after I clean out my savings! I would have been exceptionally happy to have a PowerPC flash computer a year ago or 6 months ago, or even maybe 3 months ago, but I'm cleaning out my savings here for the part of a house that the bank won't cover!
Wait 6-12 months for a flash based portable and I'll forgive you for going to Intel.
Star Trek (Score:5, Funny)
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Environmentally friendly too (Score:3, Funny)
They are small and lighters and take less space (doesn't use as much fuel to ship), don't produce much heat, use less electricity, and I think there's probably less wasteful throwing out a little stick when its bad than an HDD.
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Re:Star Trek (Score:5, Funny)
Something about ST just seems to bring out the worst part of geekdom.
Now all the TREKKIES are going to mod me down because I called Data a ROBOT when he's clearly an ANDROID. Karmic Suicide.
disclaimer: I'm currently watching the entire run of ENT start to finish. But I actually get away from the screen