Spotted at CeBIT 2007, the pictured USB flash sticks aren't your average thumbdrives. Corsair claims that using them, one can install Windows Vista Home Edition in three minutes. That's somewhat shorter than the hour-long process typically associated with installing the new MS operating system.
These are being touted not as high-end thumbdrives, however, but as SSD, or solid state drives, to indicate that they're playing in their own league when it comes to speed, efficiency and capacity.
So, here it is: Is flash is graduating to compete with spinning disks? I've talked with Seagate and others in the last few days about this very subject. I haven't quite formulated a story from it, yet, but let's put it this way: storage technology will be a warzone faster than you think.
Install Vista on a stick in three minutes [The Inquirer]
