Flash Hard Drive by SanDisk

[sri_lion]

SanDisk on Thursday released a 32GB drive for commercial notebooks that stores information on flash memory chips rather than the magnetic platters that make up a traditional hard drive. The drive is available only to manufacturers, and the company declined to give out pricing or identify any notebook makers that will adopt it,but SanDisk said notebooks sporting the drive could come out in the first half of 2007.

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[Anusha]

I wonder how they will stack up against the magnetic hard drives. Their random access performance will be superior to normal hard drives', but this alone will not give a very good experience to the end user. Power consumption wise, these babies will rule!!!