Tim Almond

There’s an interesting story on Gizmodo about 32GB Flash Drives that will run in a laptop, presumably either replacing the existing hard drive, or perhaps we’ll see 2 drives in laptops - one flash, one normal.

For those that aren’t familiar with the difference between Flash and Hard Drive storage,there are 3 good reasons for going Flash.

• Faster. Hard Drives spin whilst a magnetic disk whilst a head reads and writes data. Flash memory is a slower variety of the onboard memory, but still much faster than a hard drive.
• Power. Solid state drives mean no motor spinning sapping your battery.
• Noise. It will run noiseless (although drives have in recent years improved considerably in this area).

The drives are going to be about £200 when they come out, which is pricey for a 32GB drive. But expect them to come down quite quickly. In a year or two, they’ll probably be fitted as standard on higher spec machines.

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