90GB Flash memory drive

While the rest of us are still fiddling about with 256MB and 512MB USB Flash drives, M-Systems just came out with a 90GB Flash memory drive. That's not a typo. Even crazier, the drive costs $40,000, too. Why would anyone drop 40 grand on a gigantic Flash drive rather than say, a platinum-plated cellphone? Because when it comes to recording video a regular hard drive simply can't match the read/write speed of Flash memory, and is a lot more shock and vibration resistant than a hard drive. Since Dell probably isn't going to offer these as an option anytime soon, M-Systems says that the drive most likely find use in "military and aerospace" applications.