Flash memory closing in on hard drives?

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October 4, 2005 at 3:39 am | Permalink #62556

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Stephen Edgar
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Samsung has developed a new computer flash technology with so much capacity it could replace mini hard drives in some PCs, the company said Monday.

South Korean-based Samsung said its latest NAND memory device has 16-gigabit density. That’s twice the density of the 8-gigabit NAND memory developed last year by Samsung, Toshiba, Hitachi and others.

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October 4, 2005 at 8:41 am #74208


DogBoy
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The problem is, though, that flash memory, while it has great seek times, doesn’t have great sustained data transfer rates, so it will never completely replace hard drives.

October 4, 2005 at 11:47 am #74209


Stephen Edgar
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Yes that is very true – And I suppose I should have said that instead of just a cut & paste job.

What I like the idea of is ‘hopefully’ once the size of these get up to aound 64GB in a single card, they will ‘hopefully’ be good for long term storage of data – mainly all of my photos. For this I will not need a high sustained thoughput data rate. Just a good backup media which is easily accessable from a wide variety of devices.

October 4, 2005 at 2:04 pm #74210


gto-pontiac
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compact flash that hold 16BG hmmmmmm. if i back my photos and place it in “safe” place i’ll lose the thing. so i think i stick eith 2.5″ HDD for now. and its cheaper i’m gessing.

October 5, 2005 at 3:00 am #74211


Tflip
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I noted the other day that one of the manufacturers (Seagate?) was creating a hybrid drive with 1 gig of flash attached. It was claimed this would replace constant seeking on hard drive, saving power for notebooks, and allow easier and fuller hibernation.

On a related matter some of the JVC video cameras combine a 4 gig mini hhd with a 2 or 4 gig flash card. A 16 gig card in a video recorder with say a 4 gig mini hdd for on board editing, you can really see the potential…

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