Moon Kil Woong

Hard Disk Drives Losing Battle to Flash Memory

Unfortunately hard drives will remain a mass storage product for years to come but you are correct compact products like notebooks will move towards flash. I think this is not the fault of hard drive manufacturers but with the attractiveness of flash memory which is smaller, more dependable, and faster. With costs getting more affordable we should commend the technical innovation not lambast the old legacy technology.

This is something the US auto industry should have learned by now. Have you ever looked at the legacy circuitry in your car? Have you ever noticed the big auto industry's engines are about 10-20 year old unimproved models? Every asian country now beats our auto industry because its executives can't think farther ahead than their next trip to the golf course by jet. If you think the autoworkers are overpaid I ask you, do you think a bailout will get rid of the execs. That's why it's such a bad idea. Pretty soon Mexico and Vietnam will make more fuel efficient reliable cars than the US. Very sad.