Re: [Thinkpad] Re: Thinkpad with a 800 meg HDD?

Sunday, June 20, 2004, 6:04:56 PM, Andrew in Ann Arbor wrote:

> > BTW Vicky, are you not using a laptop with a 800 meg HDD?

> That would be me, 560x with an solid state 800 Mb IDE flash drive
> inside and a Viking 1Gb CF card in slot 1.
> Not a power user machine by an means but OK for E-mail and totally silent.
> Battery life is better than with a hard drive, reliability might be better.
> Certainly no moving parts to fail

There is a fan whirring though?

> but there is some concern about flash
> memory having some finite number of read (write?) operations.

If so, Windows would kill it all pretty quick.

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Best regards,
 Adam                         
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