Re: OT: Flash memory

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>]

On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 06:47:03 +1000, Adrian Levi wrote:
> On 12/01/2008, David Brodbeck wrote:
> >
> > On Jan 11, 2008, at 11:21 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > How do seek and rotational delays affect Flash RAM?
> >
> > 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. ;)
> 
> Yes, but if you read from the outside edge then your bit density is
> greater and therefore your theoretical maximum transfer rate is
> higher, providing that the bits don't all fly around when you stop
> spinning. This benefit would outweigh the harder to reach bits. :-)

Doesn't all that depend on whether you are on the northern or the
southern hemisphere?

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