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Posted by habshi on 01/27/07 00:35
It should fall in price rapidly but even at this price it is
reusable one can download hi def movies and watch them on the hi def
plasma tv.
An 8GB flash drive is just $100 at bigpockets.co.uk
excerpts
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16545386/page/2/
In addition to being reliable, these drives are fast. SanDisk claims a
sustained read rate of 62 megabytes per second and a random read rate
of 7,000 inputs/outputs per second. In plain English, that means its
more than 100 times faster than most current hard disk drives.
cant begin to tell you what this ultimately means for the computer,
PDA, cell phone and portable music device industries. The only thing
that might slow down SSD acceptability is the price. Currently,
SanDisks 32GB SSD will sell for $600. But, I would expect that price
will drop as more and more companies choose solid-state drives. A
number of electronics manufacturers are currently in talks with
SanDisk although they wouldnt yet disclose which ones.
This years prize goes to Sharp with their 108-in (diagonally
measured) Aquos LCD TV. I can report that the TV displayed a
wonderfully sharp and clear picture. Id love to test it in my living
room though to put it through its paces. Ill forward my address to
Sharp as soon as I get home
http://news.thomasnet.com/fullstory/501690
Designed for users who demand the highest capacity drive
currently available on the market, the new 16GB Flash Voyager can
store up to 8 full- length, high definition movies with ease. 16GB of
storage capacity is equivalent of close to 4 DVDs or over 20 CDs --
all in a small foot print USB design! The drive is also bootable,
which means users can store a full version of Microsoft(R) Windows(TM)
operating system and configure the PC to boot from USB. Combined with
the large capacity of the drive, it allows IT managers and technology
users to troubleshoot from station to station with all the
applications and files necessary to perform desktop support.
"As high definition content becomes more prevalent and that consumers
demand portability of their favorite videos, pictures and
applications, the need for an ultra high capacity drive increases.
With a 16GB drive, you can put the entire series of three Lord of the
Rings movies, an operating system, chat programs, photo editing
software and still have storage space available for more," said
Richard Hashim, Director of Product Marketing at Corsair. "Consumers
have learned to rely on Corsair Flash Voyage to safe guard their
important content. The new Flash Voyager drive will protect the data
even when the drive is exposed to the most extreme conditions."
Built to Corsair's legendary quality and reliability standards, the
new 16GB USB drive delivers sustained read and write performance at
22MB/sec and 7MB/sec respectively. Taking full advantage of the new
flash controller technology, the 16GB Flash Voyager features 8 bit
Error Correcting Codes (ECC) -- the highest code scheme for flash
based controller currently available. ECC provides sophisticated
capabilities to enhance product reliability, which allows the drive to
continue to operate even after repeated use over time.
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 19:51:14 -0500, Impmon <impmon@digi.mon> wrote:
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 00:05:50 GMT, habshi@anony (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 .
Not quite. It won't store high quality video that blu-ray is capable
of. Blu-Ray (and HD-DVD) are supposedly able to support size into
100's of GB and the cost per discs are just pocket change compared to
$100 for a 16GB card.
Even 2 dual layer DVD+R are cheaper than a 16GB card by almost $95.
The difference alone would more than pay off a new DVD burner plus a
few more dual layer discs. Imagine you need to make 100GB in bavckup.
Would you rather spend only about $50 for 12 dual layer DVDs or $700
for 7 cards? I'll bet the blu-ray and hd-dvd would be cheaper for
backing up 100+ GB than the flash card.
The flash card is fine for digital camera (both point and shoot and
video) and other mobil devices but it will not replace the blu-ray and
hd-dvd for video playback and file storeage and archival.
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