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Insane Blasts Of Heat Could Make Flash Memory Live Longer Than Ever
Flash memory is fast, it’s stable, but it’s not without its flaws. It has a tendency to wear out after too many write-erase cycles, for example. Now there’s a way to deal with that problem, and it could lead to self-healing NAND flash memory that could last for much, much longer than the stuff we have now.
Hot Flash The Secret To SSDs That Will Outlast The Universe
Heat is never a desired quality in consumer electronics. Running your chips at high temperatures reduces their life and when it gets to extremes, kills performance thanks to throttling. Not so when it comes to flash memory, where a lot of heat, applied for milliseconds at a time, can allow a NAND cell to survive 100 million write cycles without breaking a sweat.
SSDs About To Get 7x Faster If Phase-Change Memory Catches On
How To Enable TRIM On Your Mac’s Solid-State Drive
Intel SSDs Will, In Fact, Get Smaller And Faster This Year
Crucial’s New SSDs For Laptops
I let most component news hit the floor but I can’t seem to get enough of new SSD news because of how much I want my laptop to stop ticking and clicking and whirring. Crucial’s new M4 line of 2.5-inch SSDs just came out. Cult of Mac says:
SSD Showdown: 4 Top Drives Reviewed
If the automotive world progressed as fast as the computer industry, the old joke goes, we‘d all have $US1000 cars that get 400 miles to the gallon, never need maintenance, and crash catastrophically every eight weeks for no reason. Ancient punch lines aside, comparing this year’s storage options to those of even half a decade ago would be like entering a Bugatti Type 35 in the Preakness Stakes.
