by Robin Harris | Monday, April 9, 2007 | Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Dr. Hetzler pointed me at this In a 30 second explanation of NAND flash, Steve concluded by saying “read the application notes!” In my dazed state that sounded reasonable. Now that I’ve spent a few hours poring over them I’m thinking I should...
by Robin Harris | Friday, April 6, 2007 | SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Can’t afford a new notebook? Pimp your old one with flash A couple of folks sent me this link to the $30 Addonics CF drive adapter. Plug in a couple of 8 GB CF cards, or better yet, 16 GB cards and you have an upgradeable flash drive whose components you can...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, March 28, 2007 | SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
I had a flash drive in my first laptop and I love ’em. So the industry’s dithering on SSDs drives me nuts. Some kind of announcement, then zip on product availability. Then another announcement, aimed at God-only-knows what market. Multi-billion dollar...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, March 8, 2007 | Enterprise, Security & Public Policy, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Today’s Wall Street Journal article Skimming Devices Target Debit-Card Readers (subscription required, I fear) describes how thieves are hacking debit cards: replace store credit card mag stripe readers with ones that copy the mag card data and the PIN. The...
by Robin Harris | Friday, February 23, 2007 | Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
The Financial Times published an article that predicts Prices of flash memory chips have plunged to a critical “tipping-point†that could see them replacing hard discs as the storage technology of choice on laptop computers within two years. Since everyone seems...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, February 1, 2007 | SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Samsung has been leading the charge for large capacity flash drives with their 32 GB announcements and their relentless cutting of flash chip prices. And it looks like their biggest competitor for 1.8″ drives will be – Samsung. The new 60 GB 1.8″...
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