32gb flash drive

[krusbjorn]

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/03/21/samsung_unveils_ssd/

Seems like it wont be long until we can completely skip regular HDDs. No movable parts, less power consumtption and faster access. Can we expect these drives to be supported in linux soon after they are released, or will we have to wait a couple of years?

[petervk]

I don't think Linux supporting these drives will be an issue at all. They will just emulate a conventional hard drive, they only differ in how the data is stored. How else could they get windows to work on them? Even EFI support has been dropped from Vista.

I'd just be worried in the limited re-writes of current flash media. After a few years of use these 32gb drives could suddenly start shrinking. (Flash media automatically marks bad storage locations and skips over them) It would really suck to suddenly start running out of storage on your hard drive.

[Virogenesis]

Linux will be fine, Apple will have support for flash and Intel are getting involved aswell but like the other poster said flash has been know to have a limited amount of read/write have they over come this prob i wonder

[erikpiper]

I would like the shrinking. Would let ya know ya needed a new one. Better than standard hard drives that simply stop working......

[red_Marvin]

I don't think it will kill many hard drives, for performance computers anyway,
since flash is limited in how many times you can rewrite it.
(I'f it's the kind of flash I know)
The revolution will be at MRAM!

[Brunellus]

the best application will be in laptops. No moving parts=less heat, lower current draw, longer battery life with existing components. This is great for kilogram and sub-kilogram weight notebooks. I'm saving my pennies.