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speed is the issue
Storage is important, but the reason flash drives will eventually replace HDD in laptops is because of the speed and data safety issues.

First speed. Make flash drive fast enough, and laptops can radically alter their design. Once they get as fast or faster than HDD, then HDD in the mobile world is finished.

Another issue is data safety. Flash won't have the issues of head crash in case of vibration or shock. Fewer moving parts, means longer battery life, too.

For sheer storage space, HDD will probably always be king, at least for the next ten years. But for mobility, it won't take flash drives long to take over.
Posted by: rwahrens1952   Posted on: 08/23/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Let me know when the 100 Gig Flash drive hits the market  Intellihence | 08/23/06
Not true  Roger Ramjet | 08/23/06
I know!!! I know!!!  James T. Kirk | 08/23/06
I'd rather have...  Bill_Jackson | 08/23/06
quit talking about Linux!  Linux Geek | 08/23/06
that was a reply to the first message  Linux Geek | 08/23/06
The speed vs. size trade off  Roger Ramjet | 08/23/06
while the speed never changes. ???  mrlinux | 08/23/06
Regular hard drives  Roger Ramjet | 08/24/06
I agree totally  zmud | 08/24/06
speed is the issue  rwahrens1952 | 08/23/06
Well... yes and no  3D0G | 08/24/06
Yep-per  Roger Ramjet | 08/24/06
In a way, capacity = speed  CobraA1 | 09/11/06
some ideas (hybrid maganetic/flash drives, built in usb or firewire, etc)  jjarman | 05/02/07
What size it the operating system?  Outlyer | 08/23/06
Answer FLASH!  Reverend MacFellow | 08/23/06
We have that now  osreinstall | 08/23/06
Al-RIGHT!  999ad@... | 08/23/06
Impressive!  Reverend MacFellow | 08/24/06
They are.  osreinstall | 08/24/06
flash has limited write-cycles  joemartn | 08/23/06
Perhaps you should have a look at  999ad@... | 08/23/06
Flash limitations can be used as pros  Mr_Dave | 08/24/06
Instead of increasing capacity ...  rwb1912@... | 08/23/06
Heat-assisted magnetic recording?  Mr. Roboto | 08/23/06
Sony did it first.  DJFlash | 08/23/06
what is old becomes new again  Amberhawk | 08/24/06
You're thinking of the MO drives  3D0G | 08/24/06
Ah, MagOps. I knew I recognised the principle...  Mr. Roboto | 08/24/06
Storage solution for the future  Boot_Agnostic | 08/25/06
high density punch cards  jjarman | 05/02/07
they are on the way out.....  tfry@... | 01/16/07
somewhere on CNET  thedudeistoocool@... | 01/16/07
1 bit quantum storage  jjarman | 05/02/07

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