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Flash based hard drives

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.
 
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 :(
 
Xeon SX said:
no, I need to boot windows from it.
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Do you need it for something like this: http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/20050909/index.html?

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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