RE: Why do computers still have disk drives?

IBM has been flirting with holographic memory systems for awhile, too...

http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/rd/443/ashley.html

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Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 11:21 AM
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Subject: Re: Why do computers still have disk drives?


Several months ago I remember hearing that Samsung was working on a 
32GB  memory chip, and this article from 09/11/2006 seems to indicate 
they're getting closer: http://www.deviceforge.com/news/NS4990922808.html.

Also, it uses CTF (Charge Trap Flash) technology, so perhaps reliability 
and speed will be improved.

Tom Jedrzejewicz wrote:

On 10/6/06, Greg Wenzloff <GWenzloff@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
  

It's Friday -- often a quieter day in the office.

I was wondering why don't new computers like the i5 just have solid
state memory and forget about disk drives.   Think about it.   You can
get a 2GB thumb drive for $75 or less.    Why can't the manufacturers
just load about 200 GB of this solid state memory into the machine?
Think of the speed improvement.