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Old 12-13-2009, 03:31 AM   #6973
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney View Post
It's being deployed, in things like netbooks. The issue in wider usage is cost. Flash memory in large enough sizes to be a hard drive substitute is still fairly expensive.
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Yes but I'm thinking in terms of a 32 GB flash partition for the OS and applications to allow for rapid boot up and application loading and a much larger mechanical data partition (>100 GB) for all those ebooks and pics and movies and music and ....

32 Gb flash is relatively inexpensive, and in fact was/is the only storage on some netbooks like the early Asus's and the Asus T91. Which, by the way, is why I'm not interested in a T91; not enough storage. Now if it had a second mechanical drive ...
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