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Samsung creates 16GB NAND flash drive
"This is going to start to become a substantial market," Samsung's Don Barnetson said to Reuters. "It won't be a large part in 2006. But over the next three years it'll start to grow and will be a double-digit figure on its own."
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Samsung are best producers of almost evey memory device as well as monitors.. The 8gig memory sticks should leave us well armed for the vista onslaught. A 16 gig flash drive? i could find uses for that. ^_^
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16GB flash drive is amazing, and I agree it will compete fairly well with the HD DVDs. The question remains of how expensive these drives will be. While flash drives are more convenient to use than DVDs (since you don't need a DVD-ROM to run the flash drive), I doubt the flash drives will be any cheaper. If these drives aren't as expensive as some of the better flash drives out in the market right now, they will really put a dent in the future storage competition.
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Yeah, 16GB is pretty big. I cant count how many times I needed more storage from my flash drive just to put more files on it. Although this will probably be an expensive piece, I think it would definitely be worth it. Competing with HD-DVDs though? I dont know, it might, it might not. I guess we will just have to see in the future how it turns out.
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How does it only save 30 minutes on battery life of a notebook computer? If you took out the hard drive completely, I think it would be an incredible amount of run time with any modern Li-Ion battery today's notebooks use. Many people that use notebooks for their buisness travel could get by with just 16GB of storage pretty easily, since those users often have desktops that they use when in their office.
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It'll be interesting if it can compete with the High Density DVD formats being released. I'm sure they have a 30+ GB version in the works, but the capacity is not the only issue here.Flash based media is great for producers and developers since it makes copying the media exponentially more dificult than disc media. However, the downside I assume would be the cost to produce such media. The content creators may jump at something like this, but what good is it if next to no people purchase the product?What I'm more interested in is seeing how this effects mobile electronics such as cell phones, PDA's and the like. Having 16GB flash memory that is cheap enough to be used in devices other than MP3 players, where costly storage space has become an accepted norm may change the functions of a lot of our devices in the long run.
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This is a nice feature, because eventually (5 years at most) we will have a flash drive that will be like 100 gigs and that will be the norm. This a great step for desktops and laptops storage space.
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How often can one write to these big ol' flash drives? And are writes slow like they are with the usual 256mb-1gb sticks?
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[url]http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=18567[/url]all i can i say is, i wish i had the money, but oh well, nice but i don't need it...yet.
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Samsung is a well known Electronics Concern and they're very good at storage device, such as hard drives. I really believe in their technology and I'm already looking forward to see their new 16GB flash drive on the shelves.
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It's not fair to compare a flash drive with a HD-DVD. 1 or 2 years from now, a HD-DVD media will cost maybe $1 or 2, but the cheapest $16GB flash drive will still be more than $100. The advantage of flash drives is that it's small, don't use much power, and easy to use/install.New technologies are always expensive. We should wait until more companies follow Samsung's lead and make multi gigs flash disks too. For now, I'll stick to my half gig Kingston.
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The flash drive technology keeps getting better every year, I wouldn't be suprised if flash drives would provide a suitable alternative to the desktop computers' hard drives in a few years. In my opinion, using them in laptops is a great idea. Low power consumption, small size, no moving components (increased reliability) are just some of itsmerits.16 GB is a nice amount of capacity. Being as small as it is, it will probably be used in some PDAs, MP3 players, portable video players...I don't think that HD-DVD technology and flash drives should be mentioned on the same page, though. The HD-DVD disc (or a blu-ray disc) will probably cost much less (as mentioned above by otmakus).
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[b]Originally posted by Vaerilis:[/b][quote]The flash drive technology keeps getting better every year, I wouldn't be suprised if flash drives would provide a suitable alternative to the desktop computers' hard drives in a few years. In my opinion, using them in laptops is a great idea. Low power consumption, small size, no moving components (increased reliability) are just some of itsmerits.16 GB is a nice amount of capacity. Being as small as it is, it will probably be used in some PDAs, MP3 players, portable video players...I don't think that HD-DVD technology and flash drives should be mentioned on the same page, though. The HD-DVD disc (or a blu-ray disc) will probably cost much less (as mentioned above by otmakus).[/quote]Yeh, i wouldn't compare prices like that. But i can tell you that many people would be interested, i know i am, and that battery life is the biggest pain. I would pay that little bit extra for an extra hour.
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Oh yes, this is a plus, a faster notebook is more than welcome in my book. I believe that as we continue to improve notebooks, it only adds to the possibilities of wireless technology. As we continue to improve technology, it can only get better. All of this technology, is part of a bigger expansion, that only grows over time, and produces even more technology.
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Wow a 16 gig flash memory. Sadly large amounts of space means large amounts of cash...I feel like this isnt really important since HD-DVDs and Blu-ray discs are coming out. Well I'll just wait until the new technology unleashes.
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[b]Originally posted by fury:[/b][quote]How often can one write to these big ol' flash drives?[/quote]Usually it's the physical connector that breaks first, that's how most memory card manufacturers rate them.PDF: [url=http://www.transcendusa.com/Support/DLCenter/Datasheet/
S2GSD150.pdf]Transcend[/url], for example, says rated for 10000 physical insertions.
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