With flash drives becoming bigger and bigger. Crashing hard disk are the Nr. 1 threat to a computer as far as I am concerned.
At least in a Notebook this would make sense, as one really doesn't want to have moving parts in that, no?
2006-12-27 10:41:32 · 4 answers · asked by Ejsenstejn 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
Yeah, cost is the biggest reason you couldn't make the switch from one medium to the other right now. There's also raw access speed, can Flash memory compete with HDD read/write speeds at the moment? I genuinely don't know, though I'd be surprised if it could, which would make it no use at all. Also, Flash memory isn't at all inviolate, Flash memory card degrade eventually and stop working just like hard drives. In fact, most Flash memory cards are only rated for a certain number of read/write operations, think about the amount of times even in a single day you read/write from a HDD and imagine if there was a limit on the amount of times you could do that before your media could be expected to fail, that's no use at all.
2006-12-27 11:00:19 · answer #1 · answered by Bamba 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the outher answers are correct, the biggest flash drive i,ve seen is 16gb at 250$ plus, an 80 gb hd is about 65$, but just for the record, the 100$ laptops being built for poor nations have small built in flashdrives, also there working on hybrid hds that incorporate flash drives to make common programs faster
2006-12-27 19:03:04 · answer #2 · answered by jlbudweiser 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
COST, go to the store, compare the price on a 8GB flash drive, and a 160 GB hard drive. Notice the huge price difference.
2006-12-27 18:46:31 · answer #3 · answered by D 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
by the time they get flash drives up to the 50 to 100 gig mark computers will need 2-3 Terra bytes so they will never be big enough
2006-12-27 18:47:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋