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Re: survival skills for teenage geeks



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.

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