03 July 2008

Flash may replace hard drives

Flash storage cards and Flash USB drives are about to squall the PCs in the future. They are considered as a solid state drive for portable computers weighing about 40 grams and just 5mm in thickness. It could stock up 64GB of data and was lighter by a third than a hard drive of similar competence. Users could get the 128GB version by the end of the year. One cannot conceal the fact that this comes at a stiffer price when compared to hard drives. When the demand for this product increases automatically the price is expected to come down.

SanDisk recently launched the Vaulter disk a flash based module that increases the swiftness of the system boot, application load up and recuperation of files while it works in concurrence with a hard drive which may carry out other storage functions. The two drives will function in parallel thereby increasing on the whole speed and efficiency of the PC or laptop. With this technology it is possible to compress much of the data into a thumbnail sized device because companies like SanDisk, Samsung have gone double or triple disk by piling the memory cells so that each of them stores 2 or 3 bit of information.

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