Re: survival skills for teenage geeks

[Johan Zaxmy <johan.zaxmy@ida.his.se>]

Miernik wrote:
> These cards withstand shocks of 1000 G, typical HDD only 75 G.  Their
> random access time is ~ 1 microsecond, typical HDD: ~ 10 milisecond. 
> The sustained transfer rate is about 10 times smaller, but I don't care
> about that - it's important only when transferring large files, with
> small files random access time is much more important. 
>  

You missing a major factor about flash memory, they have a limited 
number of write operations. That is after one cell of the memory has
been rewritten for x times you will not be guaranteed that the content
is the same information as you wrote (there problary is a shorter and 
better way to say the above =) ).

Johan Z