From: "Geo." 

One thing I've noticed with flash drives (I have a 16gb one now) is that
they are not exactly reliable. So if they move to flash drives in laptops I
hope they create some easy way to image it from a hard drive either in the
laptop or as a usb plugin.

Ideally the laptop should image to HD when you shut down and image back to
flash drive when you power up (sort of like a mirror set would work except
not full time)

Geo.

"Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
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> And if they can shrink the size, what's to prevent adding a second one,
> for dual drives?  One removeable.
>
> --
>
> Glenn M.
> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
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>> Prices appear to be coming down. SanDisk has a 32 GB drive -
>> unfortunately OEM only - no retail
>>
>> http://www.hardmac.com/news/2007-03-14/#6529
>>
>> New Flash Memory-Based HD from SanDisk
>>
>> This HD features 32GB storage capacity with a SATA interface.
>> Its MTBF is evaluated to 2 millions hours, and data transfer speed are
>> 67MB/s in reading and 45MB/s in writing mode, with an access time of 0.11
>> ms in other words 100 times faster than a plate-based HD.
>> In addition, power consumption of this flash memory-based HD is 50% lower
>> than a 2.5" HD during reading/writing session, as it does not require
>> power when it is idle.
>>
>> The last good news is its price, as it will be offer to OEM at US$350; so
>> far there is no plan for a retailed version.
>>
>> So the perfect storage unit for the rumored Apple subnotebook? if it is
>> powered by MacOSX Leopard Mobile, it would give users around 27GB for
>> storing data and appl
>>
>> "mike"  wrote in message
>> news:tkvlv2da1d7ap66g76mp5aiurnad231rm5{at}4ax.com...
>>>
>>>
>>> Intel is throwing their hat into the ring, meaning that the market for
>>> this stuff is about to explode (IMO).
>>>
>>>
http://www.techshout.com/hardware/2007/15/z-u130-nand-flash-memory-based-va
lue-solid-state-drive-unveiled-by-intel/
>>>
>>>
>>>  /m
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 15:01:53 -0400, "Rich Gauszka"
>>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>>Samsung's UMPC entry the Q1P SSD with 32GB of SSD (solid-state NAND)
>>>>flash
>>>>memory is double the price of their UMPC Q1 with a conventional drive
>>>>and
>>>>Samsung is one of the largest makers of NAND.  Right now I think
>>>>Microsoft
>>>>/Vista has the correct approach with ReadyBoost and flash.
>>>>
>>>>Of course if NAND prices ever plummet ..........
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>"mike"  wrote in message
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 13:56:55 -0400, "Rich Gauszka"
>>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>Hopefully they'll use an exceptional algorithm to
access the NAND
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
>>>>>
>>>>> /m
>>>>
>>
>>
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