by Robin Harris | Tuesday, July 4, 2006 | Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Update: I revisit the power calculations in an addendum below. Next-gen ultra-light laptops will be a dream come true. Lighter. Dual-core speed. Much faster solid-state disk. 75% better battery life. Combining Intel’s new Ultra Low Voltage (ULV) Core Duo...
by Robin Harris | Friday, June 9, 2006 | SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
The friendly folks over at Kanguru Solutions have announced a $2800 64GB USB flash drive – only $44/GB. Shipments are supposed to begin later this month. They also offer 16 and 32 GB versions for, respectively, $800 or $50/GB, and $1500 or $47/GB. The 16GB...
by Robin Harris | Friday, June 9, 2006 | Security & Public Policy, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Chilling story about a security firm’s successful infiltration of a credit union’s infrastructure using old USB flash drives. They wrote a Trojan that would collect “. . . passwords, logins and machine-specific information from the user’s computer,...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, June 8, 2006 | Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Over at Forbes, Seagate Technology Chief Executive William Watkins talks about the future of disk drive capacities and pricing. The money quote: My best guess is that you will get a 40 gigabyte drive in 2010 for $80 on flash. I think the same device in a one-inch hard...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, May 25, 2006 | SOHO/SMB, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Wouldn’t be great to stroll into an internet cafe, stick a flash drive in the USB port, and have your desktop, bookmarks and documents immediately available without leaving any traces on the host machine? That is what Lexar is promising to ship in July with...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, May 21, 2006 | SSD/Flash/NVRAM
16GB Flash Drive Price Begins Downward Slide The price of the 16GB USB 2.0 flash drive dropped to $1175 at mWave, an almost $200 drop from less than a month ago. Two data points do not make a trend, but let’s watch this and see if a 15% drop per quarter trend...
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