by Robin Harris | Thursday, October 19, 2006 | SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Flash memory does most of what current RAM-based Solid State Disks (SSD) do, and it does it without requiring battery-backup, big power supplies or noisy fans. Plus it is cheaper. So, I started to wonder, with the advent of Samsung’s 32GB SSD are we seeing the...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, October 18, 2006 | SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Several companies are in the business of providing software that turns a USB thumb drive, or iPod, into a simple way to carry your own data and programs for use on any PC. Today, one of them Ringcube, hit the PR jackpot with a largely favorable review in the Wall...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, September 14, 2006 | SOHO/SMB, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Almost two years ago I wrote about the catfight between disk and flash (see The Limits of Flash). It’s an entertaining market because we get to see the cut and thrust of the disk vs. semiconductor brawl at its rawest. I marveled then at thumb drive prices that...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, September 13, 2006 | Backup, Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Good dialog between Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales and Encyclopedia Britannica’s Dale Hoiberg in today’s Wall Street Journal (free version, I think). They dance around the subject of massive storage and cheap internet publishing – both of which enable...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, August 31, 2006 | Enterprise, SOHO/SMB, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Over at InfoWorld, Tom Yager has posted a fascinating article titled Linux will get buried. It’s Not About Apple He proposes that Apple’s Unix revenue will overtake commercial Linux factory-install revenue by mid-2008. Which seems reasonable: Apple sales...
by Robin Harris | Monday, August 14, 2006 | Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Special Today: this report on last week’s Flash Memory Summit is written by Steve Denegri, a long time observer and analyst of the storage scene. The snarky paragraph heads in bold are mine. Thanks, Steve! As if the hard disk drive industry didn’t have...
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