Simon’s Blog

Around the beginning of March, I wrote that flash memory prices were now at a level where we could expect mainstream laptop makers to start offering solid state flash drives. Yesterday, Dell announced that laptops with flash solid state drives (SSDs) were available to order in the US (and will be available soon in [...]

The price of high-speed NAND flash memory has now fallen to levels where we should expect volume laptop manufacturers to start bringing out reasonably priced models with solid-state, as opposed to hard drive-based, storage. Because of the reliability of solid-state storage compared to hard-drive based storage, I suspect we can expect manufacturers to [...]