Samsung boss predicts death of hard drives

[DonJ]

http://www.techworld.com/storage/new...ePos=11&inkc=0

Dated 13 September 2005

Hard drives are living on borrowed time and will be replaced with solid-state Flash memory, according to Samsung's semi-conductor CEO Dr Chang Gyu Hwang.

Hwang's company has just launched a 16Gb NAND Flash chip using 50nm technology, something he used to make his prediction.

But note:

Although flash memory storage on notebooks will not fail from the same kind of mechanical shocks that would kill a notebook hard drive, the flash chips do have a finite life in read/write cycle terms. They won't last for ever.

[NooNoo]

hmm I just bought a 200 gig samsung... is he trying to tell me the 3 year warranty policy is about to be changed?

[confus-ed]

Is he not a bit late with his death, doom & famine ? Flash drive capacity has been edging up quickly, but 16gb per chip is getting pretty impressive.

[TechZ]

I see those hybrid flash+normal hdd type drives becoming popular for some time first.