CeBIT 007 Flash, bang, wallop
CORSAIR IS COMING out with faster USB sticks, dubbed Voyager GT. These allegedly indestructible drives are supposed to be so fast, that you can install Windows Vista Home Premium edition in a matter of minutes. Three minutes, to be precise.
After watching Vista install for ages on my Samsung Q30Plus-SSD notebook before it ran as fast as a turtle filmed in slow-mo, I happily went back to Windows XP Professional, but neither of these two installations went as fast as Corsair claims for its flash drive.
If Vista can install in minutes onto these gadgets, compared to an hour - they make an interesting offering.
Small, allegedly indestructable and fast as billy-o
We asked Corsair reps about entering the SSD market and we got the usual answer: we will do so when the market develops. Sigh.
If you think that SSD is nothing but a USB drive inside an enclosure, you are dead wrong, it is whole different ball-game, it seems.
Solid-state drives deploy a large number of technologies that have significantly raising the price of the device. With these hurdles surmounted, the price has begun dropping rapidly.
Meanwhile, we hear that Microsoft's R&D team acquired a ton of 128GB Solid State Drives and Voles are right now beavering away on next-generation operating systems with SSD tech in mind.
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