n3ldan

::UNCLE MUSCLES EMERGENCY BROADCAST::

I look forward to being the envy of my friends, despite the fact that my verizon contract would prevent me from enjoying it...

Unveiled? I've had one of these for a year, it's 1gb and I took off the plastic so it's tiny. Fits inside the coin pocket of my wallet. It's way smaller than a SD card with the USB prong on one side, it's the smallest one I've ever heard of but that doesn't mean there aren't smaller. It was only $27 with shipping too.
I just wish it had an activity LED, and didn't get so hot when I use it.

Personal experience says:

Seagate is the best, followed by WD.

Stay away from Maxtors and Hitachi's, they suck.

three things:
1) STOP SAYING SSD's ARE FASTER. THEY ARE NOT. They have faster random reads than traditional hard drives, but are slower at sequential reading than fast hard drives (SCSI drives can reach over 150MB/s, sandisk's tops out at about 68MB/s). SSD's are EVEN SLOWER at writing (18MB/s compared to upwards of 50MB/s for fast traditional drives)

2) No moving parts is FAR more important than the read/write times. This means NO NOISE(if you dismiss this as nothing, you've never turned on a 100% silent computer, the silence is wonderful) , (virtually) NO WEAR AND TEAR, and (most importantly, and as stated previously) means you can drop that new laptop with the hard drive spinning and have virtually no chance of any problems. "Rugged" notebook drives can sustain 200-300Gs of shock (while that sounds impressive, it's not *that* much when you've dropped your 10lb alienware POS...) and 900Gs non-operating. These SSDs can easily sustain that much while operating, and don't care about vibration or other abuse that would normally kill a drive. This makes it ideal for weird-ass military operations and the like.

Hard drives are probably the single point in a computer most prone to failure (well, maybe after removable media), with SSDs this is no longer true.

The only thing I'm worried about is how quickly flash memory can wear out...

They probably put one of those ion air purifiers in it, so it cools the computer (silently) and purifies the air.

see:
http://www.inventgeek.com/Projects/IonCooler/Overview.aspx

for a DIY version

You guys aren't seeing the full picture. As Ed Markey points out, now IPTV companies can choose to only give IPTV to certain areas, and don't think that they won't use that to their advantage.

did I miss something, or do you need a wired controller to hook it up with the pc?

It's Cambridge, not boston, you tools.

yeah, this ad is pretty old.