The crew from Tweak3D sat down with Corsair's John Beekley recently and conducted an interview regarding everything from USB flash drives to high-speed DDR2 RAM. There's some good info in the interview in you want insight into the inner-workings at Corsair.
"OK, first the good news... density of flash drives will definitely increase. And this includes the Flash Voyager. Now, as far as speed is concerned, the news is not so sweet. Component manufacturers are increasingly switching from SLC (single layer cell) to MLC (multi-layer cell) technology. MLC has the advantage that it is more dense, and thus cheaper to manufacture. SLC is faster though, in fact several times faster on writes in particular. So, as MLC takes over the mainstream, the fast SLC will become harder to get and more expensive. So you may see drives, in general, get slower rather than faster. Rest assured that we will be producing the fastest drives possible, as long as they are cost effective."
Marco Chiappetta
Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com
