“Intel recently offered our readers the opportunity to ask one of its engineers questions about Intel Solid State drives. You guys obliged with a more than enough questions. Today we get the answers.”Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
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Sizing up solid state
[H]ard|OCP took advantage of the chance to speak with Jonathan Schmidt, an Intel employee, about his experiences with the new SSD drives being manufactured by Intel. The questions cover a lot of ground, from the environmental impact of SSDs to the tendancy of flash memory to degrade over time. Defragmentation is also discussed, as the storage techniques used in SSDs do not benefit from standard defragmentation. Take a look at the interview here.
