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Say goodbye to hard drives with motors

SSD Domination, Sooner Than You Think

Based on the recent news that Intel has announced an 80-GB Solid State Disk for less than $600, the end for the mechanical drive may get here within the next five years.

created by babbleman on Sep 11, 2008 at 08:48:34 am     Comments: 1

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There are 64GB flash drives and with USB 3.0 coming out soon, that should be more than enough size and speed to meet most peoples needs.

Even the more pedestrian 8gb USB 2.0 are more useful than you can possibly imagine. You can run XP and/or linux right from them.

posted by charlatan on Sep 11, 2008 at 07:18:03 pm     #