New Launches is reporting that Samsung have shown off a laptop using entirely flash memory. They have managed to pack 32GB of flash memory into the same space a 1.8" HDD. It cites the speed increase of the chips (able to boot Windows in 18s as opposed to 32s with a hard disk) and the noise reduction caused by the fact that there are no reasons. Obviously the laptop would also be more reliable as there would be no hard disk to fail, and power consumption may well be better as flash memory usually takes less electricity to read and write to, as there are no moving parts. There is, however, a significant downside; cost. Apparently, the flash chips alone cost $960, so it doesn't look like this laptop, or any other flash-based one for that matter, will be hitting the shops any time soon.
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There might be antoher potential downside here. Having too many read-writes to the flash memory can wear it out prematurely, and with a swapfile on flash memory, it may not last as long as a hard drive might.
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