Portable Apps..?

[Stephen Barncard]

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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stephen barncard
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