From: STeve Andre' (andres_at_pilot.msu.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 01 1999 - 17:02:52 EDT
Can someone tell me if flash memory is reasonable these days, in
terms of the number of write cycles it can handle before it starts
to get flakey? Thanks.
--STeve Andre'
andres_at_pilot.msu.edu
At 04:57 PM 7/1/99 -0400, John Kim wrote:
>On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Paul Rubin wrote:
>>
>> I've bitten the bullet and gotten the quietest drive of them all, a
>> totally silent 160 MB Viking PCMCIA type II flash card (about $350 now).
>>
>> I've used one flash-drive computer before (HP Omnibook 300 with 10 MB card)
>> and loved it. The flash card beats the heck out of a hard drive.
>> Rotating storage seems like a decaying monstrosity, like CRT monitors.
>> Flash drives with 320 MB are available now and 1 GB drives will probably
>> be available by the end of the year ($$$$$$). I believe that with some
>
>Just a word of warning. IIRC, flash memory is slower than a
>hard drive, on the order of floppy drive speeds for writes.
>Reads are nice and quick though.
>
>--
>John H. Kim
>kim_at_stormhaven.org
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