Laptops, cellphones and tablets all depend upon flash.

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It was only later, when upon the white flash of another high sea hurling itself amidships, Jukes had a vision of two pairs of davits leaping black and empty out of the solid blackness, with one overhauled fall flying and an iron-bound block capering in the air, that he became aware of what had happened within about three yards of his back.

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Apple introduced its version, called Fusion Drive, that tiers storage on flash memory or a HDD depending upon frequency of use, but appearing to the user as a single storage device.

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At the recent Storage Developers Conference (SNW) in Santa Clara, CA several companies participating in the SNIA SSSI (Solid State Storage Initiative) gave a vision of future flash memory storage interfaces, based upon the PCIe computer interface.

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