SSD Flash based Drives to replace Hard Drives?
Posted by: suicidalsam in Desktop, General, Laptop
Hard Drives has been with us for a long long time now and it is about time our regular hard drives are replaced by something more reliable, less power hungry, smaller in size and has a faster data transfer rate. We are used to the old PATA hard drives and its successor, SATA which basically transfers data a lot faster than the old one. Well some the above traits are found in a Flash Drive but the one thing that is keeping it from replacing a Hard drive is its size limitation.
Now SanDisk and Toshiba have teamed up on a project for a new 43-nanometer SSD manufacturing process. The SSD ( Solid State Drive) will have the same capability as a regular 2.5″ hard drives we use. The advantages of a solid state drives are
- Less power consumption
- Smaller in size
- Generates less heat compared to a Hard Drive
- Faster data transfer rate
The solid state drives can be used on a ultra small and thin notebooks, in fact this has already happened. The MacBook Air and the Asus Eee PC. While the MacBook Air comes with an option to choose a 64GB flash based solid state drives, the Asus Eee PC provides SSD by default. There is one defect in a flash based solid state drives, the write cycle is limited so eventually, a SSD will wear out. If this issue can be fixed, SSD will definitely replace the old, bulky hard drives we use today.
Solid State Drives are kind of a new thing and obviously it is going to be quite expensive and it is so. A MacBook Air with a 64GB SSD costs $3098 while a MacBook Air with the regular hard drive costs $1799. You can see the huge price difference right!
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