Sony unveils Flash-based UMPC | Reg Hardware

As flash drives have gotten bigger, faster and more reliable, they have slowly been taking the place of traditional magnetic and optical storage media. This has set the stage for a storage revolution that is already well underway. Last month, Samsung announced that they would be releasing a laptop and UMPC device each fitted with a 32GB flash drive instead of a hard disk. Not to be outdone, Sony announced a similar configuration for it’s latest line of UMPC, the VAIO UX. It will take some time before flash devices can fully replace traditional hard disks, but at the rate storage has been increasing, it probably won’t be long.