Comments on: Research: Hard drive boom coming for in-car electronic devices (chart) http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2007/07/31/research-hard-drive-boom-coming-for-in-car-electronic-devices-chart/ Fortune's tech team offers analysis and perspective on the world’s most important developments. Tue, 22 Dec 2009 03:43:12 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: moosemstng http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2007/07/31/research-hard-drive-boom-coming-for-in-car-electronic-devices-chart/#comment-2439 moosemstng Thu, 09 Aug 2007 23:35:18 +0000 http://bigtech.wordpress.com/2007/07/31/research-hard-drive-boom-coming-for-in-car-electronic-devices-chart/#comment-2439 Honestly flash media is great but until they can make it as reliable as a hard drive I wouldnt go with flash media. If you leave a flash media card disconnected from a power supply of some sort you can lose your info. Granted this normally takes a long time. Also those little cards can get lost way too easily. If someone can give me the reliability of a HDD with no moving parts and with a large disc capacity I would be very happy but for now reliability wins me over. Honestly flash media is great but until they can make it as reliable as a hard drive I wouldnt go with flash media. If you leave a flash media card disconnected from a power supply of some sort you can lose your info. Granted this normally takes a long time. Also those little cards can get lost way too easily. If someone can give me the reliability of a HDD with no moving parts and with a large disc capacity I would be very happy but for now reliability wins me over.

]]> By: Ralph Goodson http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2007/07/31/research-hard-drive-boom-coming-for-in-car-electronic-devices-chart/#comment-2438 Ralph Goodson Sat, 04 Aug 2007 02:32:18 +0000 http://bigtech.wordpress.com/2007/07/31/research-hard-drive-boom-coming-for-in-car-electronic-devices-chart/#comment-2438 On the face of it, Greendragon appears to put forward sound comment on the above article, until you ask the question why don’t they use flash media in desktop and laptop PCs then? The answers are, price and capacity. Firstly flash is just too darned expensive. Secondly, 32gb of capacity may sound good but would you be happy with that amount of disc capacity on your PC? Similarly, in-car entertainment is not just about the driver listening to a few mp3s, it’s about keeping the kids quiet in the back with a high definition, wide-screen movie. The typical digitised movie uses about 700mb of disc space. Add a few of those to your mp3 collection and all your flash storage capacity is used up. Compare that with Seagates announcement of their one terabyte range of drives, one of which is optimised for multimedia usage <a href="http://www.podtech.net/home/3380/seagate-reaches-terabyte-milestone" rel="nofollow">http://www.podtech.net/home/3380/seagate-reaches-terabyte-milestone</a> Maybe it is Greendragon who needs a twenty first century reality check. Ralph Goodson, London, England On the face of it, Greendragon appears to put forward sound comment on the above article, until you ask the question why don’t they use flash media in desktop and laptop PCs then? The answers are, price and capacity.

Firstly flash is just too darned expensive.

Secondly, 32gb of capacity may sound good but would you be happy with that amount of disc capacity on your PC? Similarly, in-car entertainment is not just about the driver listening to a few mp3s, it’s about keeping the kids quiet in the back with a high definition, wide-screen movie. The typical digitised movie uses about 700mb of disc space. Add a few of those to your mp3 collection and all your flash storage capacity is used up. Compare that with Seagates announcement of their one terabyte range of drives, one of which is optimised for multimedia usage http://www.podtech.net/home/3380/seagate-reaches-terabyte-milestone

Maybe it is Greendragon who needs a twenty first century reality check.

Ralph Goodson, London, England

]]> By: Greendragon http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2007/07/31/research-hard-drive-boom-coming-for-in-car-electronic-devices-chart/#comment-2437 Greendragon Thu, 02 Aug 2007 00:50:46 +0000 http://bigtech.wordpress.com/2007/07/31/research-hard-drive-boom-coming-for-in-car-electronic-devices-chart/#comment-2437 I think the guy writing the article is wrong about the hard drives in cars. With flash memory growing in capacity they would more likely be used in cars for mp3 players and storage. There is already a super high capacity sd card w/ 32gb. It consumes less electricity and has no moving parts. It seems to me that business world is not inline with the technology sector. I had seen this coming a long time ago. The are stereo systems that use usb ports as well. Hard drives are obsolete for portable storage. Move into the 21st century. Enuff said I think the guy writing the article is wrong about the hard drives in cars. With flash memory growing in capacity they would more likely be used in cars for mp3 players and storage. There is already a super high capacity sd card w/ 32gb. It consumes less electricity and has no moving parts. It seems to me that business world is not inline with the technology sector. I had seen this coming a long time ago. The are stereo systems that use usb ports as well. Hard drives are obsolete for portable storage. Move into the 21st century. Enuff said

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