“Hitachi Ltd, Japan’s biggest electronics conglomerate, plans to exit the business of making small hard disk drives as demand shifts to flash memory chips, the Nikkei business daily reported on Sunday,” Reuters reports.
“Hitachi’s hard drive unit, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Inc, has already stopped production of 1-inch hard drives and plans to stop shipping 1.8-inch drives around next summer, the newspaper said,” Reuters reports.
“The Nikkei also said Hitachi rival Fujitsu Ltd. has given up on plans to enter the market for small drives. Fujitsu had been developing 1.8-inch drives with U.S.-based Cornice with plans to bring a product to market in 2007,” Reuters reports.
“Small hard drives are increasingly being replaced by flash memory chips as the memory storage device in video cameras and portable music players, such as Apple Inc’s popular iPod, as flash memory capacity improves and prices come down,” Reuters reports.
Full article here.
isn’t there a limit on how many times you can write to flash memory?
“isn’t there a limit on how many times you can write to flash memory?”
Yes.
“Another limitation is that flash memory has a finite number of erase-write cycles (most commercially available flash products are guaranteed to withstand 100,000 write-erase-cycles for block 0, and no guarantees for other blocks).”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory#Limitations
Pointless thread requires a needle.
the eagle has landed
Never put the cart before the horse, unless he knows how to push it of course……
nudge nudge SAY NO MORE!
you ever notice that your own farts smell okay?
@Ampar
Thanks – that’s more than i thought.
A push in the bush is worth two in the hand.
She likes vegetation.
How many surrealists does it take to change a light bulb?
Fugu.
I’ve always wondered. Did Ethel the Aardvark go quantity surveying?
“I’ve always wondered. Did Ethel the Aardvark go quantity surveying?”
No, she became a mud wrestler in Perth.
Thanks Index. That’s troubled me for years.
What were once vices are now habits!!
“I think, therefore I am
I hesitate, therefore I um
I write poetry, therefore iamb.
I hitchhike, therefore I thumb”
– Ethel the Aardvark
Wait a minute. Dark is faster than wood.
And heat is faster than cold. You can catch cold.
A white stratocaster is more resonant and sounds better than a black one.
This has been one of the more interesting and useful threads on MDN.
@ Micro Me. I’m surprised you didn’t know about Ethel.
Well thank god they’re not giving up 5 1/4″ floppies yet.
@ Transmission. Yeah, it was remiss of me not to stay in touch.
A guy called Eric the Pink once told me he’d invited Ethel over for brine shrimps. She was with this bird called Bentonite, and they left footprints all over the carpet. That should have given me the hint.
Really interesting things, snall hard drives.
Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana.
I heard that the man who fell into an upholstery machine is fully recovered.
The zookeeper knew categorically it was a tiger attack.