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Toshiba goes multi-cell with new flash drives

The Mighty Spang

128MB? 

Posted Friday 21st March 2008 04:15 GMT

what are they booting? Windows 3.1?

James Bryant

Sounds pretty crap really 

Posted Friday 21st March 2008 04:15 GMT

This is unless those bits that say MB are meant to say GB.

Kevin Aquilina

MB? 

Posted Friday 21st March 2008 04:15 GMT

Joke

Of what use can a 65MB or 128MB ssd drive be today :)

So...

:1,$s/MB/GB/g then it might become interesting.

KA from MT

John Benson

Wear-levelling means even more data traces 

Posted Friday 21st March 2008 21:46 GMT

Alert

Wear-levelling means that secure delete by shredding a file may not really shred all of the file all the time. I love the convenience of USB flash drives, but am very worried about the security implications of the technology.

Morely Dotes

Where are the actual benchmarks? 

Posted Friday 21st March 2008 21:46 GMT

Paris Hilton

"Better overall performance" than regualr old 5400 or 7200 rpm disks is lovely, but are we talking orders of magnitude better, or a few percent better?

My money's staying in my wallet until the performance per dollar is at least equal.

Paris, because she understands performance but doesn't know where the charts are, either.

Dr. Mouse

@Morely Dotes 

Posted Tuesday 25th March 2008 10:04 GMT

RE: "Better overall performance"

They quote 100MB/s read and 40MB/s write, so the read speed is already being quoted as quicker than a regular 7200rpm hdd. Writes are a touch slower, but a desktop spends more time reading than writing.

It's access times which should be at least an order of magnitude better. I have run desktops with slow compact flash cards through a CFIDE adapter and the reduced access time makes a hell of a difference.

Would like to know though how much they will cost and when they will go on general release.

Dick Emery

Encrypt it 

Posted Wednesday 26th March 2008 19:22 GMT

Stop

"Wear-levelling means that secure delete by shredding a file may not really shred all of the file all the time. I love the convenience of USB flash drives, but am very worried about the security implications of the technology."

I suggest then using GOOD encryption software with a STRONG password/phrase.