http://www.techtree.com/India/News/Transcend_Launches_Portable_SSDs_in_India/551-98222-581.html
I had thought of this idea a couple of years ago. I had done some research at that time to see if this was possible and whether it already existed in some lab/r&d center. The main point I found out was that the number of guaranteed reads and writes (I am not sure whether it was only writes) in a flash disk is limited at some 0.1 million or 1 million times. This was the main reason why flash hard disks were not made. There was one company doing some serious work on this and they even had come up with a proprietary system to manage the data. Meaning: For a 1 GB data space, they had some 1.5GB space in it and as the limits of the reads and writes of some of the sectors of the memory got exhausted, the system started using the excess 0.5 GB internally. There are two possibilities: 1. One technology has further improved and the limits of the guaranteed writes has increased. 2. As people have now mostly adopted flash disks in almost all kinds of stuff in huge GBs (ipods, memory players), and almost all the people have forgotten about the risk of data loss(by corruption), this new flash hard disk may actually sell in the market. I would like to see an expert review/critic about the number of the guaranteed writes, before I think of buying one of these. Also, I will wait for a couple of years to see if these disks hold up by heavy users (teenagers transferring movies and games).
I had thought of this idea a couple of years ago. I had done some research at that time to see if this was possible and whether it already existed in some lab/r&d center. The main point I found out was that the number of guaranteed reads and writes (I am not sure whether it was only writes) in a flash disk is limited at some 0.1 million or 1 million times. This was the main reason why flash hard disks were not made. There was one company doing some serious work on this and they even had come up with a proprietary system to manage the data. Meaning: For a 1 GB data space, they had some 1.5GB space in it and as the limits of the reads and writes of some of the sectors of the memory got exhausted, the system started using the excess 0.5 GB internally. There are two possibilities: 1. One technology has further improved and the limits of the guaranteed writes has increased. 2. As people have now mostly adopted flash disks in almost all kinds of stuff in huge GBs (ipods, memory players), and almost all the people have forgotten about the risk of data loss(by corruption), this new flash hard disk may actually sell in the market. I would like to see an expert review/critic about the number of the guaranteed writes, before I think of buying one of these. Also, I will wait for a couple of years to see if these disks hold up by heavy users (teenagers transferring movies and games).
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