by Robin Harris | Friday, January 19, 2007 | SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
With the latest crypto-announcement of a 128 GB, 2.5″ SATA flash drive, my patience with the flash disk folks is at an end. They aren’t shipping flash drives and, as near as I can tell, they have no intention of doing so for quite some time. Last April...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, January 10, 2007 | SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Digi Times is reporting that Ritek, the Taiwan-based optical disk maker, announced a 32 GB flash drive under its RiDATA brand for OEM sale. The cool thing: looks like they are charging ~$10/GB for the 16 GB version, although the article isn’t clear on pricing. A...
by Robin Harris | Monday, December 11, 2006 | Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
The storage world is abuzz this morning over a new paper at this years International Electron Device Meeting talking about recent improvements in phase-change memory. The underlying technology is cool: a bit of germanium-antimony (GeSb) alloy which can be rapidly...
by Robin Harris | Monday, November 13, 2006 | Enterprise, Security & Public Policy, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
State-supported industrial espionage has an important ally in the Bush administration. The Department of Homeland Security Theatre has decided it needs to be able rifle through notebook hard drives at the US border. A boon to all online storage providers. Hey, maybe...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, October 26, 2006 | Security & Public Policy, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
A fine article in the latest Macworld describes how to create a thumb drive loaded with portable apps – including some that work with Windows – for use on the road. It is the first I’ve seen how-to article that actually describes the process in...
by Robin Harris | Friday, October 20, 2006 | SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
After I hit the “publish” button for yesterday’s SSD article I started thinking of additional things to add: I sent a note off to Texas Memory Systems asking them to respond if they’d like. They graciously said they would, so I’m waiting....
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