160GB solid-state drives coming, Intel says
That’s good news to hear. Intel is promising soon the shipping of laptops and notebook PCs with 160GB solid-state flash drives. Solid-State drives if you haven’t heard about it before are new candidate replacements for current mechanical hard-drives, known for being much faster and more reliable. They are also much less noisy for not having a mechanical head spinning inside it. For more information about the drive, see the Wikipedia article. The price and limited storage has been what’s keeping it from taking over so far, but as Moore’s Law states, prices drop to half and performance doubles in technology every 18 months. So this seems to be happening now.
The ultimate wish of mine is to have it as an external drive for backups. But compared to current external and NAS storages in Tera bytes today, the wait is pointless I believe, as it needs 2-3 more years to reach that stage at least. I can’t risk my data that long can I! But if you’re looking for new laptops, hold down your horses for a while. This is expected 2nd quarter this year.
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“Back when I was your age, we didn’t have these flash drives, no sir.. we had large metal platters that spun around and made noises. Batteries would work for 5 hours at best!”
:P
mohammad: Yeah don’t mention it. Anyone else?
3baid: What’s with the granpa :). You do sound like a granpa too! hehehe… I think this is how we would keep buzzing our grandchildren with our good old geeky days. :P
good news buy me one :) . karem we7na nestahal . and there is external SSD but expensive . but if you want to buy me one even its fine with me :) mashkour