Solid state drives on their way

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Imagine XP booting up in two seconds flat. Imagine your favourite game doing much the same. Imagine no more hard drive whine.

Well, you may not have to wait much longer. Samsung expects to be releasing the first affordable solid state drives next year, with available capacities up to 128Gig by early 2008.

IMO, this is shaping to be the next big revolution in computing.

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=4962

[ZombieFriedNuts]

cool me like

[Zalmoxis]

That's awesome! I should save up money and buy it when it comes out.

BTW, this is off subject but it made me think about it, didn't Microsoft want to keep your hard drive themselves, at their own location or something? I don't remember exactly but I want to know..

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BTW, this is off subject but it made me think about it, didn't Microsoft want to keep your hard drive themselves, at their own location or something? I don't remember exactly but I want to know..

I don't know

I made a mistake putting this story into the frontroom, It should have gone to the hardware folder. Any chance of some mod moving it please?

[Geezer57]

Hybrid hard drives (containing flash memory in addition to magnetic storage) are beginning to show up, currently targeted at laptops where the discs don't have to spin until the flash memory is full. See here: http://news.com.com/Samsung+hybrid+h...3-5683836.html

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Hybrid hard drives (containing flash memory in addition to magnetic storage) are beginning to show up, currently targeted at laptops where the discs don't have to spin until the flash memory is full. See here: http://news.com.com/Samsung+hybrid+hard+drive+works+while+it+sleeps/2100-1041_3-5683836.html

Yeah, I figured this technology would be taken up by laptops first, for the energy savings.

However, a hybrid like this could also substantially cut down on hard drive operation in a standard computer, although it remains to be seen whether this particular technology will actually make the jump.

I must say I'm a little suprised at the lack of interest in this topic though. Hard drives have long been the major bottleneck in computing, and the prospect of static hard drives promises to change that. It's also going to cut down the noise and the power requirements. I mean, we're talking about going from a mechanical data retrieval mechanism to a fully electronic one. To my mind, it's like finally leaving behind the dark ages of computing and truly moving into the modern era. In fact I've been looking forward to this sort of technology for years, but now that it's finally getting here I seem to be one of the few who's excited about it.

Maybe people will only begin to appreciate it once they start getting hold of it...