[Vision2020] Tech news: solid-state drives

[Tom Hansen]

Yes, Kai, the flash drive was introduced a while back.

But NOT with 32 gigabytes of memory and 250 MB/sec access speed.

"The shortness of life, the frailty of reason, and the dull routine of 
senseless activity do not allow us to gain much knowledge, and what we do 
learn we all too soon forget."

- Copernicus


"Give me enough speed and memory, and I'll outrun life, out-think reason, 
zap routine, gain on the brain, and forget none of it."

- Author Unknown

Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho


> Didn't someone already design, and build computers for students in third 
> world countries to use that incorporated flash drives instead of EM 
drives??
> If so, Intel is getting on the bus second.
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Kenneth Marcy" <kmmos1 at verizon.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 2:33 PM
> To: "Vision2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Subject: [Vision2020] Tech news: solid-state drives
> 
> > IDF San Francisco — Today, Intel revealed the outlines of its plans 
to 
> > enter
> > the market for flash-based solid-state drives by announcing a trio of 
new
> > products and their basic specs.
> >
> > Technical details at this URL:
> > http://techreport.com/discussions.x/15346
> >
> > The first product should be available in a month or two, and the 
latter 
> > two
> > next year. Pricing is yet unknown, but likely starting closer to 
executive
> > bling than chocolate chips.
> >
> > This announcement may be one for your history notes -- the beginning 
of 
> > the
> > end of dominance of the electromechanical hard drive for data storage.
> >
> >
> > Ken
> >
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> Kai Eiselein
> Editor, Latah Eagle 
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