Well that was fast!
I should add a new category called "Blog & Lunch" or just "Blunch" to cover this kind of "eat and blog" session. Anyway, last September I blogged about Samsung's announcement of 16gigabit NAND flash memory, and I fantasized about how this paved the way for lower power, lighter weight, faster flash based harddrives. Well, Fast forward 6 months to CeBIT in Germany, and Samsung showed a laptop with a 1.8" 32gb flash harddrive.
Oh, sure, you can grumble about the $30 per GB cost and about how it would cost $960 for this drive, but consider that the 40MB harddrive I bought in 1990 cost me $400 or $10,000 per gigabyte. Or that the 2GB Seagate Barracuda SCSI drive I had in 1996 for taking my work back and forth was around $800. $960 ($771 in 1996 dollars) for a 32gb flash harddrive? Bring it on.