PQI has 64GB SATA 2.5-inch flash drive ready for August

by Paul Miller, posted Jun 8th 2006 at 1:45AM

We knew PQI could put their flash memory prowess to better use than that "The card is just not a card!" deal they were messing around with last time we saw 'em. It looks like they've gone and done us proud with a 2.5-inch SATA flash drive for notebooks with a whopping 64GB of storage, giving it a real claim to replacing that clunky old HDD in our laptop -- once we can scrounge up the $2000 this thing will be selling for. The best news is that the drive should be out in August of this year, almost even beating Samsung's $1000 32 gigger to the punch. Supposed transfer speeds are at a not-too-shabby 32MBs, but the real payoff for early adopters will be the reliability and battery life afforded by these things.

Filed under: Laptops, Storage

Tags: 2.5-inch, flash, hdd, laptop, pqi, samsung

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wackybit @ Jun 8th 2006 2:51AM

$2000! Are you kiddin' me? And transfer speed is only 32MB/sec? I'd be better off getting the toshiba 200GB 4200rpm hard drive!

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Tom W @ Jun 8th 2006 2:56AM

What's with the pinky fingernail?

Is that a cocaine scoop?

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marco @ Jun 8th 2006 3:16AM

LOL! Good one TW. :) LOL

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Craig @ Jun 8th 2006 4:10AM

Weren't people saying that there were problems with flash mem HDDs? I'm pretty sure that I read somewhere that people said that these drives might not last as long as some people hope because they have a limited read/write number and the large amount of rewrites a HDD does?

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rice @ Jun 8th 2006 5:26AM

If this company is Asian - would understand the pinky - they often keep this nail long - to use for things - like picking one's nose. Serious.. (sigh)

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Carlos @ Jun 8th 2006 6:28AM

On a regular XP it would have endurance problems (unless they integrated a smart algorithms to cycle the writen positions).
This product would be more appropriate for XP embedded with is "enhanced write filter" (or embedded linux, or Win CE) which are more "flash memory" friendly.

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sunystory @ Jun 8th 2006 6:42AM

engadget got one thing wrong. PQI is not a manufacturer of flash memory. PQI gets supplied from either Toshiba or samsung electronics. They assemble the flash memories and make CF cards/flash memory hard drives

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DT @ Jun 8th 2006 9:59AM

Rice:
Don't forget earwax removal!

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pedram @ Jun 8th 2006 10:46AM

No one can get impatient like a coke head...

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Ogive @ Jun 8th 2006 11:57AM

For now I think I would rather settle for a HDD with a 128mb flash cache...

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