External storage

[sam_rowsell]

Could anyone tell me how realistic it would be for flash memory to replace the hard drive in external hard drives over the next 5 to 10 years

 

[gamerman4]

Here is a good article explaining the coming years of Flash vs HDD
http://www.storagesearch.com/semico-art1.html

Also future HDDs will have a small amount of flash memory to act as cache for the HDD.

 

[sam_rowsell]

Thank you gamerman4. This artical is just what I needed