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- Flash drives get a fight from disks
- I used - and loved - a Windows flash disk notebook for 5 years. The flash drive doubled my battery life and gave me a better sleep mode better than any I've had since - PC or Mac. I've been excited to see flash drives moving into the notebook mainstream....
- Tags: Notebook, Disk, Seagate Momentus, Performance, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., USB Flash Drive, Bottom Line, Seagate Technology LLC, RPM, GB Mtron, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2007-09-11
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- Notebook SSDs REDUCE battery life at 50x the cost
- Tom's Hardware is reporting test results that show that costly notebook flash drives actually use MORE power than hard drives - shrinking battery life by up to an hour. How could this be? The test Testing 4 SSDs against a 7200 RPM 2.5" drive on a...
- Tags: Disk, Battery, USB Flash Drive, Tom, Notebooks, Engineering, Flash Memory, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Mac Air and the cost of flash
- Mac Air and the cost of flashHDD RPM ClarificationJust to clarify, RPM's do indeed dictate how many times a read/write head will pass by the same spot on a disk. So 5400 RPM's will naturally spin faster than 4200, as opposed to the description above. Stuka has the...
- Tags: Notebooks, Stuka, Apple Macintosh, Apple MacBook, MacBook Air, Mac Air, disk
- Discussion threads 2008-01-16
- Flash drives get a fight from disks
- Flash drives get a fight from disksBattery LifePersonally I see 30 minutes of extra battery life as being a big bonus but maybe thats just me. We've push Li Ion batteries to the breaking point just as sony how it worked out when they went past it and so...
- Tags: Engineering, Notebooks, Good Money, USB flash drive, laptop computer, battery, disk, SSD
- Discussion threads 2007-09-10
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