In terms of electronic devices, hard-disks have been the slowest to evolve. Relatively speaking, they are still in the stone-age in terms of technological development While Processors and Flash-drives are getting smaller and faster, hard-drives are still spinning disks like an old record player. Flash-drives are to hard-disks what mp3 players are to record players.

The new generation of hard disks, called Solid State Drives (SSD), is based on flash memory like that of USB memory drives. By utilizing this technology, data access speeds are dramatically increased while power usage, and operating temperatures can be kept to a minimum. This is great news especially for laptop users, because it means much quicker loading of programs while it can significantly extend the battery life. But the only drawback is the price. As of now a 32GB Flash SSD from Samsung runs a lofty £261.00.

High definition camcorders are also now coming equip with flash-memory storage as well. The new canon HF10 has dual memory capabilities – besides the expandable memory card it comes built in with16 GB of flash memory. That’s enough space fro six hours of footage on the longest play setting.

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