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Flash drive, the technology used in cell phones and iPods will one day replaces the kind of hard disk we are using currently? And the reason?

Because flash drives, also known as solid state drives, don't have any moving parts, they’re faster, quieter, more efficient and more reliable than hard drives, which read and write data via a movable arm and a spinning magnetic disc.

This is extremely useful especially when you are constantly moving person with your laptop. However, at the moment, to use the technology as a replacement for hard disk is still a very expensive solution. Hybrid flash drives will be the coming up trend while the price of flash drive drops.

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Bloomberg.com reported:

Customers of Intel Corp. said the world's biggest computer-chip maker plans to reduce prices on Pentium processors by as much as 60 percent to reclaim market share from Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

I'm surprised to hear this, but I'm very pleased to have even cheaper PCs. Good move!

Although AMD is doing well in recent years, I never really like them.

Additional information: AMD increased its market share of the overall x86 chip market to 21.4% versus Intel’s 76.9% as of the end of 2005.

Listen to these hard drive noise wave files (at the very bottom of the page) to diagnose your own hard disk problem when it's making noise. At least, you can talk like an expert when you call for support.

(via LifeHacker)

If you remember, I'd just recovered some data from a corrupted hard disk last week. After that, I plug my corrupted 40GB Western Digital back to the Pentium III, it just failed. I couldn't hear any sound from it when I start up. The motherboard couldn't detect it. I think I might have to get a new hard disk to replace it.
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You might not believe it when my 5-year-old Pentium III computer is actually still running smoothly all the while. It runs on Windows XP with 512MB of SDRAM. Just few days ago, my sister told me that the computer was not able to start up. Maybe it's just too old, but I never give up so easily!
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