Solid state memories to replace Hard Drives soon

''Intel ... wasn't kidding this summer when it promised to put a new face on solid-state drives.
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The Tech Report concedes that the drives are very expensive at about $600 per 80 gigabytes of storage space, but it's still "an absolute bargain" if you measure value in price per high-speed data transfer.
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The X25 delivers scary performance under some circumstances such as reading massive data sets (hello, corporate America!) or working with several applications at once (a.k.a. a normal day at my desk). Through smart design and quality components, Intel has overcome some glaring problems with drives built around lower-cost multi-level flash memory cells. It's still not cheap enough to blow traditional disk makers like Western Digital ... and Seagate Technology ... to pieces yet, but it's just a question of time.''

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