Comments on: SSDs, The Death Knell Of Hard Drives?

CBS Tech Analyst Larry Magid Looks At Solid-State Drives

[matter77]

That''s why the military has already been using solid-state drives. If you''ve got less than a minute before someone captures the drive, what are you going to do with hard drives? Run around placing thermite on everything? Even with encryption, there''s the keys, and if someone DID get the keys they have EVERYTHING.
Ask Seagate where the keys are on their new HW encrypted drive. Some like IronKey fry the drive if you get the pw wrong so many times ... yikes! Just to keep you from possibly guessing the pw, which is all the keys are based on.

[matter77]

There''s another side to the solid-state hard drive. It''s easy to quickly destroy all contents of the drive. You can''t do that with an ordinary hard drive. You have to wipe, etc.
Criminals can make a solid-state drive fry in seconds, on command, encryption or no.

[itgranny]

hmmm. you''ve owned 2, i''ve had over 30 going to my people. They''ve been dropped, spilled on, abused in every manner. I just had 2 5 year old machines go out because their hard drives went bad and it wasn''t worthwhile to fix them. I''ve had really good luck with them.

[sevenveils]

The flash hard drive is cool. lenovo laptop computers are not.
Lenovo from my personal experience equals less than zero in warranty support and spare parts availability. I found I get the best product support for this brand from ebay. My recommendation, after owning 2 Lenovo laptops is to avoid this brand at all costs. It now is a CHEAP Chinese brand using cheap plastics, crummy keyboards and has nothing that resembles the IBM Thinkpad support network. How''d this article about flash drives get turned into a Lenovo advertisement?