Hi,
Sounds interesting - given that Sandisk has already come out with 64 GB SDXC
cards. I expect talks of new hardware (it'll likely be called hansone
hardware 4.0) to emerge sometime in 2012.
Cheers,
Joseph

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Orozco [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2010 9:03 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [GWN] More Memory for the BSP Request

Here's an interesting article from the New York Times.  I'm thinking it's
not too much to ask that the next generation of Braille Sense notetakers
carry a little more flash.

A 64-GB Hard Drive the Size of a Stamp
By 
STEPHEN WILLIAMS

DESCRIPTION

In the not too distant technological past, a computer's storage drives
filled a space not much smaller than my living room. The new 64-gigabyte
solid-state
drive from SanDisk is the size of a postage stamp.

Miniaturization, except when it comes to S.U.V.'s and flat-panel
televisions, is a key and crucial formula these days in gadgets, and the
 SanDisk "iSSD"
-for integrated solid state drive-will end up in tablet PCs, netbooks,
smartphones and other mobile products.

One of the major advantages here is that the iSSD has no mechanical or
moving parts, as do most internal hard drives, and the new drive could
likely be
attached directly to the computer's motherboard, freeing up valuable
interior space inside the machine.

The result: smaller gadgets with more power and greater power efficiency.

The size of the new chip is only 18 by 20 millimeters, less than two mm
thick, and weighing less than a gram. The iSSD products have been made
available
to manufacturing clients for evaluation, SanDisk said. Storage capacities,
while limited now to 64 gigs-not nearly enough for fully functional
laptops-will
increase in time.

SanDisk is among the chief makers worldwide of flash memory modules. It has
not set a price as yet on the new gear.

Joe

"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves,
some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all."--Sam Ewing

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