On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 13:23, Johan Zaxmy wrote: > 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. Wasn't that problem resolved a long time ago? > 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 =) ). "After a memory cell has been rewritten x times, it will no longer hold what was written." Alex. -- PGP Public Key: http://aoi.dyndns.org/~alex/pgp-public-key -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS d- s:++ a18 C++(++++)>$ UL+++(++++) P--- L+++>++++ E---- W+(+++) N- o-- K+ w--- !O M(+) V-- PS+++ PE-- Y+ PGP+(+++) t* 5-- X-- R tv b- DI D+++ G e h! !r y ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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