Flash vs. hard drive battle heats up (Fortune)

Flash vs. hard drive battle heats up (Fortune)

Posted Mar 19, 2008 21:29 UTC (Wed) by maney (subscriber, #12630)
In reply to: Flash vs. hard drive battle heats up (Fortune) by zlynx
Parent article: Flash vs. hard drive battle heats up (Fortune)

Sure, it would be more efficient. It would also fly about as well as a lead balloon in the market. The reason they're making ATA-attached flash drives is exactly because you can immediately sell those to the vast majority of the market that already supports hard drives. The other tolerably widespread interfaces have drawbacks in cost, performance, or ubiquity, or a combination of those.

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Well, in my idea the new commands would not replace the older SATA commands but be in addition
to.

In that way, you could use the direct flash interface by installing a Windows driver during
installation before using the drive, just like you used to have to do for SATA, SCSI or RAID
with Windows XP.