by Robin Harris | Tuesday, April 25, 2006 | Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
The emergence of a 16GB USB flash drive for $1363 poses an interesting question: will Samsung’s pre-announced 32GB flash drive cost $2600? Clearly there is some kind of kink in the price curve when a 4GB flash drive costs $19/GB, 8GB costs $32/GB and 16GB...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, April 19, 2006 | Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
With Samsung’s announcement of a 32GB hard drive replacement using flash memory (like that in USB thumb drives) instead of rotating disks, the SSD is set to conquer a new market: the ultra-portable laptop. It is about time. I owned and daily used for over five...
by Robin Harris | Friday, April 14, 2006 | Backup, Enterprise, Security & Public Policy, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Slash dot points to this story from the BBC and AP about military secrets being sold along with USB drives in Afghan bazaars. The flash drives are stolen from US military bases by Afghans working in them. A few thoughts: Maybe they should pay the Afghans a little...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, April 6, 2006 | Backup, Enterprise, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI, Security & Public Policy, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Well, after getting /.’d yesterday this is bound to be an anti-climax. But I scoured the exhibition show floor the coolest products at SNW last night and found three contenders. The first is Wasabi Systems the maker of a small (~1″x 3″) flash drive...
by Robin Harris | Saturday, December 18, 2004 | SOHO/SMB, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
The skirmish between rotating and solid state storage (SSS) continues. Solid state storage proponents have lost a number of bets over the years to the rotating media barons. The bet? When solid state storage would overtake rotating storage in the market place. With...
by Robin Harris | Saturday, November 27, 2004 | Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
SolarPC has announced the SolarLite PC, a $100 (when you buy $10M worth!) PC based on the VIA chipset and DSLinux (Damn Small Linux) which includes a fairly complete set of tiny apps in just 50MB. It isn’t clear if it includes a display in that price —...
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