160gb flash drive

The prospect of having a HDD without a spinning platter is an enticing one. The pluses of no moving parts, and the lowered power consumption which is a huge buzzkill on laptops mean there really aren’t any huge downsides. Except for the fact that the sizes aren’t anywhere near where they need to be.

Some of us will probably never be able to ditch the old-school platter based HDD. The computer I’m at right now has two 250gb drives and a 500gb one. Suffice to say for the time being I won’t be stepping away from the standard storage methods.

But 160gb flash based HDD for a laptop? That’d be enough for most people, myself included. And that’s what Adtron recently announced. No prices listed in the press release, and I’m quite sure it’ll be crazy-expensive. But it’d be perfect for the military and it’s a harbinger (but a good one) of things to come.