Over the past few months, we've seen dozens of announcements about solid-state hard drives. PQI has already announced a 64GB flash drive (which coincidentally, is based on Samsung NAND), which ASUS, Fujitsu, SamsungSandisk have all announced products based on solid-state hard drives. Given the fact that the hard drive has been the bottleneck on PC performance for years, the question has to be asked is solid-state technology ready to take us out of the dark ages of storage?
This article doesn't just go into performance and reliability benefits, although those are very obvious, but also the power consumption. A NAND drive can use 0.2W per read/write... compared to the 9W current drives suck out of your PSU.
The future will be interesting... if we can get these things larger than 64GB
This article doesn't just go into performance and reliability benefits, although those are very obvious, but also the power consumption. A NAND drive can use 0.2W per read/write... compared to the 9W current drives suck out of your PSU.
The future will be interesting... if we can get these things larger than 64GB