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To: John F Beule who wrote (20949)	10/16/2001 12:42:15 PM
From: Ausdauer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

John, I think the use of flash memory is the most interesting piece of your post. SanDisk claims Micron infringed a 1-year-old patent for its Flash EEprom memory system that the company claims is a potential replacement for the bulkier computer disk drives currently used on most computers, SanDisk said in court papers filed yesterday in federal court in San Jose. I know that a 30 gigabyte hard drive costs only a little more than a bologna sandwich, but cost is not the only issue. I just bought my wife a Pentium 4 computer running at 1.4 gigahertz (for $899) and it has some enormous hard drive in it. The problem is, you turn it on and it sounds like a jet engine. I think the constant noise of the hard drive is a bother and wonder why some of the data can't be stored in a flash reservoir, thus allowing the hard drive to spin down. I mean, I think of my handheld devices and my palmtop computer running on 16MB or RAM and wonder why one needs a hard drive for much of the day-to-day uses such as surfing the net and writing e-mail. I think the fact that MU is pursuing solid state media for PC applications is more important that the details of the SNDK/MU suit itself. Aus