What is a flash storage?

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Thursday November 26, 2009

Hard drives have become huge and today, many are shipping with one terabyte hard drives.

Flash storage

has also vastly improved, but what is it? And how does it differ from traditional hard drive storage?

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- You can go here to see a Wikipedia article on Flash Storage

- Flash memory or storage is non-volatile which means it doesn't need power to retain the data stored on it.

- Many devices use flash memory.

- This includes the BIOS in your computer and a range of storage for digital cameras.

- Flash memory and storage has no moving parts.

- Flash memory is much lighter than conventional hard drives.

- It's also up to 100 times faster at reading data.

- The storage capacity of flash memory has doubled more than 19 times in 14 years.

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