 notebooks run the operating system out of NAND RAM, the same memory that your iPod Nano or digital camera uses. This type of memory has several advantages over traditional hard drives, such as lighter weight, lower power consumption, no moving parts (less to break) and faster read/write speeds. The overall effect on its new Q30 SSD notebook is that they would be faster, lighter, last longer per charge and be less prone to data-loss. Not a bad upgrade at all.</p>
<p>It’s not certain that these new notebooks are headed to the States, but you can be sure that in the next year you’ll start seeing SSD notebooks of some sort on US store shelves.</p>
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October 10, 2006
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Isn’t flash-based memory not as secure with your data as
traditional HD ’s are?
How many times can you Read/Write to these RAND drives before they lose memory ?
Nand memory has no moving parts and should actually be more stable than a traditional hard drive. Access speed is lightning fast. Problem has been Read and Write speed. It has been slower than traditional hard drives.
NAND memory also has a limit to the number of times it can be rewritten, although this issue is minimized with clever algorithms that spread your writes out across the memory to try and level the wear across the entirity.
Last I checked, the max write/read was some astronomical number. Harddrives have a limit too yaknow :)
hopefully the computing will be more delightful than the awful photograph shown
Curious how big (Gigs) the SSD is. Hoping it is at least as big as the average hard drive installed in laptops.
Reads in an SSD are much faster than in an HDD. But, writes in an SSD are much slower than in an HDD.