Samsung predicts death of hard drives

[Sobe]

Dr. Chang Gyu Hwang, chief guru of all things semi-conductor at Samsung, contends it won’t be long until we say sayonara to hard drives completely. We do know he’s been sniffing some of that fresh hot NAND flash memory action, so there’s got to be a bit of techno-utopianism going on here — but the density growth on these chips is notably doubling about every twelve months. So if we see a 32Gb NAND chip by late next year as Samsung claims, that means we’ll start to see 64GB flash memory cards for laptops, followed by 128GB cards the following year, and so on. Still, before anyone else gets too punch drunk, we gotta remember the other factors involved here, like the fact that although flash memory isn’t subject to the kind of mechanical failures a dropped notebook drive would incur, they’ve still got a finite read/write life cycle — not to mention the power consumption and um, cost factors. But they have blistering fast access speeds that pale any hard drive.

[Ziggy!!]

It is indeed the future... I wonder which audio company will be the first to produce small session cards to achieve an entire session on... Hell, CDs and DVDs are fast becoming an obsolete storage device... Kind of reminds me of zip drives... i remember choosing a shiny new zip drive over a cd burner back in the day... about a month later i realised what a stupid thing i had done because zip disks cost an arm and a leg and hold less than half a CD


Shit is going to quick these days... perhaps with a 128gb Ipod they might find the time to upgrade the quality of MP3s substancially.

[LAU]

after solid state storage inovations
the next big thing is indeed battery life;

enter hydrogen technology

[logiclust]

Originally Posted by LAU

after solid state storage inovations
the next big thing is indeed battery life;

enter hydrogen technology

I would expect battery life to take a mojor jump just by switching away from HDDs, Samsung's chips are very low power compared to those spinny disks.

[LAU]

yeah, but still it will be great if your battery last for 2000 hours.....wich will become possible with hydrogen tech

[aussie_techie]

Originally Posted by logiclust

I would expect battery life to take a mojor jump just by switching away from HDDs, Samsung's chips are very low power compared to those spinny disks.

you must also consider battery life of the storage its self.

no doubt hard disks will die but i think they have a fair while left in them yet
one of the biggest drawbacks to flash media storage (particular for audio and video) is that there are no hi-speed acess mechinisims in the main stream. while the chips them selves are extreamly fast its is pointless unless be can untilise that speed and USB certainly doesnt cut it

[Shaman]

Originally Posted by LAU

the next big thing is indeed battery life;

Here

[Shan]

I actually recorded a small Pro Tools session on a 4G USB drive awhile back. It worked. Kinda cool.

Shane