"They are in data recorders in airplanes," Oren said. Some of the drives have capacities of 256GB and are quite sophisticated. Military and aerospace customers have been buying so-called solid-state flash drives for about a decade.
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In its own tests, Sandisk says its flash drive can boot-up Windows Vista-the next version of the Windows operating system-in 35 seconds, a half-minute faster than the 55-second boot-up time required with a conventional drive. SanDisk's flash drive can increase battery life by about 10 percent, said Doreet Oren, director of product marketing for SanDisk.įlash also can retrieve data faster. As a result, flash devices are less prone to breaking down- flash cards can survive drops from great heights-and consume less energy. Unlike traditional hard drives, flash memory drives do not contain moving parts. While SanDisk shows off its flash drive there, drive makers will be touting hybrid hard drives. The debate between flash makers and hard drive manufacturers will be one of the big topics at the Consumer Electronics Show and Storage Visions, which both take place next week in Las Vegas. The drive is available only to manufacturers, and the company declined to give out pricing or identify any notebook makers that will adopt it, but SanDisk said notebooks sporting the drive could come out in the first half of 2007.įor the past year or so, flash memory makers have promised to come out with products that will challenge hard drives in notebooks. SanDisk on Thursday released a 32GB drive for commercial notebooks that stores information on flash memory chips rather than the magnetic platters that make up a traditional hard drive.
The switch, however, will cost you a few hundred dollars more.
SanDisk wants to replace the hard drive in notebooks with flash memory, a swap that it says will make thin laptops faster and more reliable.
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