He also didn't find much love for a recent incarnation of a solid-state flash-based hard drive. The main problem, according to the experts he talked to, is that operating systems aren't tweaked for flash quite yet. That, and while read times are fast for flash, write times are still slow. But the technology is improving fast, and has a lot of potential. According to his sources, flash-based storage should be ready to make real improvements to computing by this time next year.

To read the full text of Michael J. Miller's latest Forward Thinking column, click here.

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