SanDisk secretly concocting read-only memory for archival use?

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Matt @ Feb 27th 2007 3:40PM

On the other hand, I really don't see this as a winner for digital film. The ability to take a lot of pictures and delete the crappy ones is part of the disruptive growth driving the DSC market. Even disposable cameras can do this.

On the other hand...
If this is really cheaper than NAND flash then it could actually be really cool for the DAP market. The ideal usage model for most people is to have enough storage to never have to erase any music. Current NAND players offer 8GB or less of storage, which is a bit too small to hold the entire library. Bump that up to 16GB and the write-only model starts to work. It would need to offer at least 50-100% more storage than NAND for the same $$, but it could work.

I can imagine the commercial tag line of the new $99 32GB write-once Sansa - "This will go down on your permanent record." Get it... permanent record... I kill me.

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