Next Generation Flash Drives

#116 | 17:16 |

Lab Rats

Monday April 14, 2008

Andy and Sean look at how flash memory could be a replacement for magnetic hard drives.

- SSD: soild state drive for data storage.

- Samsung Flash SSD 64GB: $900 US.

- Latency: wait time while the disk head moves from one place to another.

- Check out episode 54 for more information on disk defragmentation.

- ReadyBoost: disk cache technology introduced in Windows Vista to speed up startup.

- Security expert Steve Gibson is also a big expert on hard drives. See more at http://www.grc.com/spinrite.htm and check out the Security Now! podcast.

- Corsair Flash Voyager 32GB: $159 US.

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