Solid State Drives

[guest3110]

Thanks for the link to that article, pyrre.

by pyrre:

And a 4TB one planned.

Things are definitely going to get interesting.  :-D

[pyrre]

Things are definitely going to get interesting.

And insanely expensive.....

But hopefully the smaller SSD disks becomes cheap now...

[ChuckT]

What SSD disks and flash devices are you talking about?

Dedicated SSD disks will endure any shock you ever (under normal circumstances) will put a harddrive trough.

SD and CF cards cannot in any way be compared to SSD...

The science display at the Franklin Institute had ten times the normal current that your average house has.  I wasn't shocked but I put my hand on a display so I don't know if any static electricity went through the drive.

I just know that the early Lexar Thumbdrive (USB 1.1 or 1.0) started to give me problems after touching it and it shortly stopped working after that.  Once I sensed trouble, I copied my files off of it before it stopped working.  I pulled it apart and I believe there was a chip by Samsung in there and inside the housing the chip was just resting on the board with the case holding it in place and shut and I still stand by Lexar drives as the Firefly are pricey but they are my favorite drives.

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