news.com.com — With flash storage being brought up by the cellphone industry for its efficient size and energy consumption it is the next natural storage medium for laptops. Also sporting instant on capability, it seems that cost is the only thing that stands in the way of flash sending hard drives into storage along with tape drives.
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davdavJan 5, 2006
Just give me more, faster storage space.. I don't care what medium
xtractoJan 6, 2006
@xiloki (0) :"A good idea could be to have / on flash and /tmp /var and /home on harddrives."Agree, I use: / on HD, /tmp as ramdisk (/dev/ram0) and /~ at /dev/sda0 (4GB SD card+reader in USB2)For my music I have /mnt/music on a 120 GB seagate HD. Of course I have 2 GB of RAM, which I bought quite cheap at ebay.
kungpowJan 6, 2006
Still a pretty ridiculous story. $45 per gigabyte for flash, and by 2009 it will be $9 per gigabyte. Well, hard drives are already less than a $1 per gigabyte now, and only getting lower.And the misleading statement about flash hard drives in notebooks in 2006, well, that's just a 1 gigabyte flash cache to lessen work the real hard drive has to do.Flash drives aren't so much faster than hard drives as hard drives were faster than tape drives and floppies.
tmulcahy365Jan 6, 2006
This may be similar to the "rocketdrive" you describe<a class="user" href="http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/09/07/can_gigabyte/">http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/09/07/can_gigabyte/</a>
blisteredJan 16, 2006
"Part of this story went over my head sooo fast. How does 8 gigabytes = 1 gigabyte?!?"You mis-read it. It says 8 gigabits = 1 gigabyte.Yeah, your correct; I'm a stooge.