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From: bobs10	7/9/2008 9:28:36 AM
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Flash drives pronounced pointless theinquirer.net Article: Joel Hagberg told Computerworld that the technology was half-baked and needed a few technology breakthroughs before he would be interested. He said that the only place in the market where flash was worthwhile was improving random-read performance, such as relational database look-ups, and tables. Hagberg also said that the case for the capability of solid state was overstated, saying that notebook manufacturers have suffered with their customers expectations for the technology falling short. "People do not realise that flash is really good if you're reading stuff, but it doesn't work very well for large file reads and large file writes, and it doesn't work well for random writes," Hagberg said. "Solid State drives in laptops don't boot faster and do not save that much energy over traditional technology." µ me: This is about what I've been expecting out of SSD when the dust finally settled. Since this is Fujitsu speaking I wonder how this applies to the various flavors of Eclipse soon to appear? Interesting, since it seems that Eclipse will be a bulk sequential write and random read product. Personally, I'm not very optimistic that SPSN/Virident will be able to come up with a viable product by the end of the year. 45nm seems more plausible as this will double the 65nm capacity and give more fudge room for other things that don't work quite well enough.

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