-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11-Jan-08, at 2:27 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:
On Jan 11, 2008, at 11:21 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:If you spin around in a circle fast enough while holding the flash card, all the bits slide to the outside edge where they're harder to reach. ;)On 01/11/08 13:18, Paul Johnson wrote:On Jan 11, 2008 8:51 AM, ISHWAR RATTAN <rattan@cps.cmich.edu> wrote:As comparison to hard-disk scenario is the access overhead (seek/rtotational/transfer delays) - do such concepts apply to flash memory?Yes, but the times involved are much smaller.How do seek and rotational delays affect Flash RAM?
Wouldn't the increased acceleration from centripetal forces get you to the outside edge faster, counterbalancing that effect?
I suppose moving the data back 'uphill' would increase the transfer delay though...
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