Re: Why do computers still have disk drives?

["Peter Dow (ML)" <maillist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Several months ago I remember hearing that Samsung was working on a 
32GB  memory chip, and this article from 09/11/2006 seems to indicate 
they're getting closer: http://www.deviceforge.com/news/NS4990922808.html.

Also, it uses CTF (Charge Trap Flash) technology, so perhaps reliability 
and speed will be improved.

Tom Jedrzejewicz wrote:
> On 10/6/06, Greg Wenzloff <GWenzloff@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   
> > It's Friday -- often a quieter day in the office.
> >
> > I was wondering why don't new computers like the i5 just have solid
> > state memory and forget about disk drives.   Think about it.   You can
> > get a 2GB thumb drive for $75 or less.    Why can't the manufacturers
> > just load about 200 GB of this solid state memory into the machine?
> > Think of the speed improvement.
> >     
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