EduGeek Journal

1 | Erin Jennings

July 5th, 2007 at 11:45 am

I’ve read that flash drives will eventually replace hard drives altogether. I love my little portable flash drive (no more floppy disks or CDs!), and the way the storage space is increasing, one day we’ll be able to take the entire contents of our computers with us on one little drive. That would be great… assuming I don’t leave it somewhere accidentally. Oops.

It would also be neat to be able to swap out the flash drive on an iPod, so you could change the playlists stored on the device without going through iTunes. You could put your music and movies on one drive and your audio books or course lectures on another, effectively giving you twice as much media available at any time, and the ability to switch content at will.

I’m not sure if the 80 gig iPods have storage space issues, but my little 6 gig Mini can’t hold all of my music and my Harry Potter audio books at the same time. Time to upgrade, I guess. :)

2 | Darren Crone

July 6th, 2007 at 9:26 am

Can you imagine where we will be 50 years from now? With all of the advances in nanotechnology (shameless UT Dallas plug :)), the microcomputer may evolve into a microscopic computer. This could be bad for people like me who can’t find their keys half the time!

3 | Matt Crosslin

July 9th, 2007 at 7:58 am

I really hope that Flash drives replace hard drives sooner rather than later. Hard drive crashes are still a huge issue, so having something that doesn’t crash would be awesome.