Wu: Apple Going Solid State for All iPods, Portables?
- March 7th, 2007
- 3 Comments
NAND flash to play bigger role in future Mac and iPod models [Apple Insider]
NAND flash to play bigger role in future Mac and iPod models [Apple Insider]
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mike (Who am I?)
1 year ago
80GB (or 64GB as the case is more likely to be) worth of flash in a full-size iPod doesn’t seem very likely anytime soon. I can see maybe dropping the 30GB HDD model for either a 24 or 32GB model of flash, but not till next year.
Then again, I suppose it’s possible if Apple bought enough flash to get a truly ginormous discount, they could pass the savings on to the consumer. Hmmm. Maybe a topic for my next AudioFile column.
-cap’n kobrin
Abby (Who am I?)
1 year ago
I hope they don’t go to an all flash storage - it seems like the battery is harder to replace when they do this. when my ipod video battery died i had the juice guys replacec it and they couldn’t do that if the batter was soldered to the motherboard.
Scott Eblen (Who am I?)
1 year ago
If Apple does stay with a HDD-based iPod they could see a massive increase in capacity that flash-based storage couldn’t compete with. I’ve done a comparison of growth trends in iPod Disk capacity versus generally accepted hard disk growth which you might find interesting.
http://www.libraryhouse.net/blog/2007/03/08/store-wars/