Looks like Samsung is starting the trend towards flash-based hard drives with the announcement of new 32GB “solid state disks.” Designed to replace hard drives in laptops (at least at first) these flash drives use only about 5% of the power that a regular, spinning hard disk uses.
Write speeds of flash drives are notoriously not up to par, so it will be interesting to see how Samsung’s offering stacks up. Also, you can expect these to cost a pretty penny when they first reach the mass audience.
[ via Gizmodo ]
Oh boy –look out!!!!– you forensics specialists.
Unlike conventional hard drives i can see theese little TTL/CMOS chips getting fried using high voltage ignition coils built into computers.
Unerase that…………..
Ever put a CD into a microwave oven?
Bye bye in a nanosecond.