Flash USB Drives Take Off
News Handy said USB drives should provide a major boost to NAND, a new, lower-cost version of flash memory that can store data but can't execute software instructions. NAND give you a cheaper price for just doing data storage," he said.
[November 12, 2002, 8:25]
Consumer Demand Calls For More Flash Memory
News Already the NAND Flash in USB drives has displaced floppy disk drives in PCs for transferring data, especially as density in NAND flash devices increases," said Jim Handy, an analyst at Semico. Camcorders, which use various storage formats such as...
[November 22, 2005, 14:10]
Samsung Starts Mass Production Of 70nm Flash
News NAND Flash memory is used in CompactFlash cards, and also in portable devices such as MP3 players, digital cameras and USB memory sticks. Memory card prices look likely to fall following Samsung's announcement late on Monday that it had begun mass...
[May 31, 2005, 17:50]
SanDisk Releases Flash Hard Drives For Laptops
News NAND flash memory makers (NAND is the kind SanDisk makes) have managed to double the storage capacity of its chips nearly every year for the past few years. The NAND flash contained in the SanDisk drive, in fact, only contains one bit of data per...
[January 4, 2007, 11:13]
Samsung Unveils 32GB Flash Hard Drive
News NAND flash memory is typically used today in USB memory sticks, digital music players and digital cameras. Samsung is planning to shake up the hard drive market with a 32GB drive that uses NAND flash memory chips rather than magnetic platters.
[March 22, 2006, 14:05]
Acer Aspire One review
Reviews Standard storage levels aren't great — just 8GB of NAND flash memory is provided, but you can't complain given asking price. Elsewhere, there are three USB ports in total — two on the right, one on the left.
[June 24, 2008, 13:34]
CompactFlash Gets Storage Boost
News Toshiba on Thursday announced 4GB and 2GB CompactFlash cards for use in digital camcorders, music players and cameras.The cards feature 90nm NAND flash memory technology, the company said. The drives are based on multilevel cell NAND flash.
[January 7, 2005, 11:55]
Samsung Flash Chip Threatens Hard Drives?
News NAND flash memory is widely used in consumer devices like digital cameras, cell phones, USB flash drives and portable music players such as Apple Computer's new iPod Nano. South Korean-based Samsung said its latest NAND memory device has 16Gb density.
[September 13, 2005, 9:30]
