Portable Apps..?
Stephen Barncard
stephenREVOLUTION at barncard.com
Sat Jan 14 11:44:06 EST 2006
Still - he faces a future where solid state drives might eventually
render the HD useless...so he's biased...
>
>I was able to turn up an interview with Seagate CEO Bill Watkins
>which addresses this:
>
> If you want to have a very rich audio or video experience,
> no matter what you do, you're going to need a hard drive.
> Flash memory can't handle the data rates that a hard drive
> can. The data rates on flash are too slow to handle
> high-quality video and audio.
>
><http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/sep2005/tc20050927_1608_tc057.htm?campaign_id=rss_tech>
>
>
>I still haven't found specifics on Flash drive speed relative to
>hard drives, but at least we have one authoritative voice to confirm
>what we see in our own experience: Flash drives are convenient, but
>not necessarily zippy.
>
>--
> Richard Gaskin
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