Fw: The Joy of the Flash Drive

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anonymous reader writes "A post to the C|Net site covers the numerous
benefits of flash drives, such as speed, temperature, and battery
consumption. The perk author Michael Kanellos is most fond of? The
distinct lack of noise. 'The notebook I'm testing--a Dell Latitude D830
with a 64GB flash hard drive from Samsung--hasn't emitted a sound in
three days. Flash drives, which store data in NAND flash memory, don't
require motors or spinning platters. Thus, there are no whirring
mechanical noises. Compare that with my T42 ThinkPad. It sounds like a
guinea pig got trapped inside, particularly during the start-up phase.
Vzoooot. Cronk, cronk, cronk. Zip, zip. (Pause.)
Gurlagurlagurla...zweeee. '"

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