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Hard Flash Drives

Hard drives are great; they're cheap and getting bigger every year. Flash drives are cool, too: cheap, convenient and fast. So, what if we could have the best of both worlds? That's exactly what Toshiba, Seagate, Hitachi and others are working on. The vendors are grafting a flash front end onto a hard drive -- all to make Vista PCs and laptops that much faster.

Posted by Doug Barney on January 09, 2007


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