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September 14th, 2005, 01:36 PM
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 Joined: Feb 8th, 2005 Last Online: December 26th, 2008 Location: London Posts: 1,122
Rep Power: 17  |  Flash based hard drives I know they exist but just cant find one for sale. |
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September 14th, 2005, 01:40 PM
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 Joined: Jun 4th, 2004 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Melbourne, Australia Age: 20 Posts: 8,513
Car: 00' Subaru Forester GT LFS Status:  Rep Power: 28   | maybe the iPod nano?
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September 14th, 2005, 01:53 PM
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Rep Power: 17 | no, I need to boot windows from it. |
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September 14th, 2005, 01:55 PM
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 Joined: Sep 12th, 2005 Last Online: December 16th, 2008 Location: Montréal, Québec, Canada Posts: 85
Rep Power: 0  | They are definitely the future but I wouldn't say that they exist the way 3.5" drives do today. I mean I don't think you can get 200GB Flash HDDs yet. I know that Samsung is releasing a 16GB flash card next year but I'd still say that we have a number of years before conventional spinning HDDs are replaced. |
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September 14th, 2005, 02:01 PM
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Rep Power: 17 | I remember I read an article, maybe review of a 2GB flash based hard drive. Now being a human, I dont remember where I read it  |
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September 14th, 2005, 02:33 PM
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 Joined: Aug 25th, 2005 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Valencia, Spain Age: 33 Posts: 496
Car: '07 Ford Fiesta 1.6 Sport Rep Power: 16 | Quote:
For that, you only need a USB flash drive with the right capacity. If you need more than that (a permanent replacement for your hard disk) there are hard drives based on flash memory, such as this one from M-Systems, but bear in mind that the cost per byte in flash memory is much higher than the cost per byte in a hard disk, so a decent-sized flash drive will be much more expensive than an equivalent hard disk. In exchange, you get all the advantages of a flash drive (no moving parts, no seek times/latencies, a sustained read/write speed,...), but at a much higher cost. Hope this helps 
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September 14th, 2005, 02:46 PM
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 Joined: Mar 31st, 2005 Last Online: January 6th, 2009 Location: Flanders, Belgium Age: 25 Posts: 4,007
Car: RIP Opel Astra -> 2006 Toyota Corolla Wagon Rep Power: 43  | ^^ wow, that's a cool feature...a bootable USB stick with windows on it...i'm gonna make that right away
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