Posted by Joe S. on 09/26/91 11:37

habshi wrote:
> I think blue ray may be doomed before it starts. Flash drives
> upt 16Gbytes will soon be on sale will store downloaded movies from
> the net to be played on media center tvs and computers .
>
> Flash Memory to Rival Hard Drives
> Slashdot - 20 hours ago
> ... Samsung will start producing 16 gigabit Nand Flash chips this
> year... Gartner estimates that 16GB Flash drives will cost from about
> $90...
>
If you read the article carefully you'll see that they are saying 16
gigabits, not gigabytes. 16 gigabits equals only 2 gigabytes.
We are a long long way off from 16 gigabyte flash.

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