Free Report Puts Perspective on Mobile Storage

There has been much speculation that hard disk
are being replaced by flash memory in portable electronics. In reality
hard disk drive technology has many years of growth and will enable lower
cost high performance storage for portable devices while coexisting with
other portable digital choices. A free report, "Putting Portable Storage
in Perspective" by Tom Coughlin, Coughlin Associates available on the
www.tomcoughlin.com or www.entertainmentstorage.org web sites describes the
future roles of various portable CE storage devices. Some key points from
the report follow.

By 2010 1-inch hard disk drives will offer over 100 GB for the same price
as a 30 GB flash memory. The price cross over point for flash memory and
hard disks drives will be under 10 GB by 2010. Small form factor hard
disk drive storage capacities will continue to offer much greater storage
capacity for a considerably lower price than comparable flash memory
offers. Compressed formats such as MP3 songs were developed for fast
downloads over slow Internet connections and into small digital mass
storage. Low cost high capacity digital storage small hard disk drives will
enable future higher resolution loss-less format portable entertainment.











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For example, a 100 GB 1-inch hard disk drive storage capacity provides a
real personal content and entertainment center with 20,000 4-Megapixel
photos, 10,000 MP3 songs as well as over 80 VGA-quality movies selling for
less than $400 in 2010. In the following decade a portable rich media
product with 20,000 8-Megapixel photos, 10,000 loss-less compressed songs
and 100 DVD-quality movies will use small form factor hard disk drives with
close to 600 GB (now not even available on 3.5-inch hard disk drives).
Small form factor hard disk drives enable intelligent personal devices that
we can scarcely dream of today.

A mobile digital storage hierarchy and desired product features sometimes
directs the use of multiple storage products in a consumer device. Slow
download speeds for rich content may revive physical distribution. A
removable flash memory or small optical disk could be used for rich content
distribution to a mobile device with an embedded small form factor hard
disk drive providing mass storage of content.







Contact:
Tom Coughlin
Coughlin Associates
(408) 202-5098
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