Intel Confirms It Will Ship 160GB Flash Drives

[Fotno]

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/12/1647241&from=rss


It's gonna be expensive.

[Goobersmooch]

ya know i see the benefit of the flash drives but i dont see the benefit when you view it from a cost to benefit perspective

[Dumb_Arse_Here]

ya know i see the benefit of the flash drives but i dont see the benefit when you view it from a cost to benefit perspective

What?

[Fotno]

What?

They are really nice,but not nice enough to spend that kind of money on them.:D

[BassCatter]

You know when I got the Blue Screen of death, you told me the Ram may be bad, so I bought two 512mg rams and a 500 gig Sata drive that Carboy told me was good. The ram in the machine was good, so now I have 2 Gighz Ram and 500 Gig Sata drive.....that thing cooks!!! Would I need this flash drive too????? I have like 300 gigs worth of external hard drives than I can pop in and out realitively quickly.

[Fotno]

No.

[Fotno]

What was wrong with it?

[pooker]

Ok so I think anyone that uses flash drives and lives by them like me lol, will agree. They take forever to copy and move! I would really love a flash drive that loaded fast, when ever I do work for my programming class I always have to move the files off of the flash drive , then put them back on. Which takes forever, because when I try to run the file from the flash it lags super bad. I bought a two gig from wal-mart for 6.99 with a backpack when I first starter school , really good price. :D And i think that if the 160 is as slow as the rest of them (everyone in class has the problem) then if you fill that puppy you better have alot of free time. Something else I noticed though, flash drives they hold videos pretty good, I can put videos on there at an ok quick speed, its just when I put programs like c++ and vb and alot of text documents on there, that are not big at all, but just alot of them it can take like thirty minutes! But my movie files that are a gazillion times bigger take a few minutes.

[BassCatter]

Nothing Fotno, it's Ginning now........Carboy cleaned and fixed me up with the parts I bought.

[pooker]

whats ginning mean?

[Fotno]

The Joy of the Flash Drive

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/16/0635230&from=rss

[TheCapitalist]

Vzoooot. Cronk, cronk, cronk. Zip, zip. (Pause.) Gurlagurlagurla...zweeee.

[Goobersmooch]

Ok so I think anyone that uses flash drives and lives by them like me lol, will agree. They take forever to copy and move! I would really love a flash drive that loaded fast, when ever I do work for my programming class I always have to move the files off of the flash drive , then put them back on. Which takes forever, because when I try to run the file from the flash it lags super bad. I bought a two gig from wal-mart for 6.99 with a backpack when I first starter school , really good price. :D And i think that if the 160 is as slow as the rest of them (everyone in class has the problem) then if you fill that puppy you better have alot of free time. Something else I noticed though, flash drives they hold videos pretty good, I can put videos on there at an ok quick speed, its just when I put programs like c++ and vb and alot of text documents on there, that are not big at all, but just alot of them it can take like thirty minutes! But my movie files that are a gazillion times bigger take a few minutes.

that article is referring to the solid state hard drive types...i think

not thumb drives

or did we change topics and i didnt really notice?

[Fotno]

Yes.It's talking about the solid-state HD

[bpitt]

We use them at work a lot. We have to do a lot of 'patches' on our servers and it's real easy to just log into the server with our laptops via the services port, plug the flash drive into the usb port and wham, bam, thank you flash drive the 'patches' are loaded and I'm outta there. Otherwise, we have to setup an FTP server, if the customer doesn't have one on their lan, and do it that way. Flash drives just make it easier, though I'll admit, we don't need huge ones. I use a 1gb, and it can hold all the 'patches' that we use.

[Fish-Bait]

whats ginning mean?


running like a fine oiled machine.
hauling ass
running smoothly
kickin' ass on a high operating level.
turnin' out the rpm's
NOT missing.
cruising smoothly.....

all of the above =ginning.:bouncy: