Samsung has announced volume availability of the 128 GB solid state drive. 256 GB drives should be coming out before the year is out. This is getting really interesting. Looks like these multilevel or the MLC flash chips are going to provide the higher capacities fairly quickly. The SLC or the singkle level chip flash technology seemed to slow down around the 60 GB capacities some time back. While HDD have already reached a terabyte capacity with vertical recording technology stuff, the SSDs are not too far behind now. It'll be interesting to watch the race! These 128 GB devices are available in 1.8 and 2.5 inch form factors.

Out of Retirement

I had gone into a kind of retirement by the end of last year. Had been doing some freelance on-line consultancy. Now suddenly I am back at a job again full time. Having been at development management job for such a long time everything I have been doing gives such a sense of deja vu! We flew in, we stayed at a hotel, we hunted around for a house, moved to it. Arranged gas connection, got furnishings and furnitures (that's a change, other times we got the packers & movers to get the furniture and stuff), got phone line, got mobile connections, arranged broadband connectio, the list goes on! On a larger scale there's another deja vu! We came back to Pune. Last dozen year's or so we lived in Pune. We kept going out on job changes yet kept coming back here. In fact, in dec we left Pune to go to Kolkata yet, in 6 montrhs we are back here! Is that destiny or what!!??