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Although I think either Samsung or Toshiba, or someone either released or made a prototype of a lapotop with a 20 or 40GB worth of flash memory. Yes I know the deatail are a little sketchy, but at least I've got it out
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Posted: 2006-08-20 14:13:21
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Yes, we'll start to see examples coming out, but I don't think you'll see flash memory replace hard drives enmasse for a long time yet.
Samsung had a flash based laptop at cebit this year. But in reality it was a normal laptop with Samsungs 32GB flash memory in the hdd slot. Yes it'll work, but what's the durability? Computers write to the hard drive many thousands of times a minute sometimes. For example the swap file. You have to redesign the way the swap file is saved to "disc" (in this case flash memory) otherwise you'll get a dead spot very quickly where the swap file is stored in flash memory. There are other examples.
Samsungs effort was a demonstration of their flash capacity of 32GB, not a demonstration of a flash based laptop as such.
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Posted: 2006-08-20 17:02:26
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The annoying thing with flash memory is the constantly changing formats. MS PRO Duo can go up to 32GB but would Sony produce it, because by that time it won't be used by many/any devices. So, it's M2 that has gone back to square one and is now on 1GB and soon 2GB.
The constant desire to reduce the card format isn't helping reduce costs surely.
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Posted: 2006-08-20 23:55:27
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