Samsung expects 20% desktop storage NAND flash based drives by 2008

[her34]

http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20051020A5024.html

Samsung will boost the density of flash by 3-4 fold over the coming years in order to fulfill the goal and the company plans to debut 32GB NAND flash based HDDs for the desktop PC market.

will you buy a 32GB flash drive?

 

[Genx87]

If it is non volatile and performs very fast you bet I will.

 

[Lonyo]

If it's not horrifically expensive I may.

 

[alimoalem]

depends on the price....what if it falls? or the connection gets messed up? cause my dad has a 2gb flash drive he bought like 6 months ago and u have to hold the drive at a certain angle cause something internally got loose....it'll take a pretty loooooooooooooong time to backup 1gb file like that, let alone 32gb

 

[Mik3y]

Originally posted by: alimoalem
depends on the price....what if it falls? or the connection gets messed up? cause my dad has a 2gb flash drive he bought like 6 months ago and u have to hold the drive at a certain angle cause something internally got loose....it'll take a pretty loooooooooooooong time to backup 1gb file like that, let alone 32gb

the jump drive and the nand flash drives will be different. you cant compare the 2 items like that through flaws. they're flash based. otherwise, they're not the same thing.

 

[OneOfTheseDays]

flash drives are designed for portability and to be extremely compact. with these NAND flash drives they don't have the same limitations. i suspect whatever they decide to do it will be incredibly stable, much more stable than current HD's with moving heads and platters. I'm hyped and excited, HD's have long since been the bottleneck of computers. we will finally have uses for all that bandwith SATA2 provides.

 

[arcas]

What's the rewrite lifetime of NAND devices these days?

 

[ribbon13]

Specs
Prices

If Samsung can beat either, I'll probably buy one.

 

[santaliqueur]

when the prices come down, we'll all be buying them.

CJ

 

[Looney]

Originally posted by: alimoalem
depends on the price....what if it falls? or the connection gets messed up? cause my dad has a 2gb flash drive he bought like 6 months ago and u have to hold the drive at a certain angle cause something internally got loose....it'll take a pretty loooooooooooooong time to backup 1gb file like that, let alone 32gb

Nothing in this world is indestructible. But something with no moving parts is much less likely to fail than something that does.

 

[Ctrackstar126]

The question is how much will you be able to do with 32GB in the year 2008?