Friday, March 19, 2004
90GB Flash Memory Drive From M-Systems
Posted by Suhit Gupta in "NEWS" @ 02:00 PM
"M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers Ltd. on Wednesday released a solid-state ATA hard drive with capacities up to 90 Gbytes. M-Systems' new FFD 2.5-inch Ultra ATA hard drive looks like a normal hard drive to a PC or other operating system, but uses fast flash memory designed to resist shock and vibration for military and aerospace applications."
So you are reading that correctly, it is a 90GB flash drive 8O. If you have $40,000 to spare, you can be the baddest kid on the block. Anyways, given the price tag, looks like it will be in use, at least for the time being, only by the DoD, NSA and the armed forces.
OT - I used to always wonder how search engines were able to produce incredibly fast results and always credited it RAM disks, but later realized that it was not only RAM disks but also the way the data was indexed. In any case, we can now build half the equation in our computers (given that $40K of course ;-)).
So you are reading that correctly, it is a 90GB flash drive 8O. If you have $40,000 to spare, you can be the baddest kid on the block. Anyways, given the price tag, looks like it will be in use, at least for the time being, only by the DoD, NSA and the armed forces.
OT - I used to always wonder how search engines were able to produce incredibly fast results and always credited it RAM disks, but later realized that it was not only RAM disks but also the way the data was indexed. In any case, we can now build half the equation in our computers (given that $40K of course ;-)).
