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| SirPeale:
300,000 writes, but what about reads? |
| mlcampbe:
How can access to the CF card be slower than a hard disk? There are no moving parts and after all it is really just memory isn't it? I personally thought access would be faster but that was just an assumption. |
| lokki:
It's the type of memory that does it. It is not the same as your computers RAM http://www.howstuffworks.com/flash-memory.htm |
| wj2k3:
SanDisks Extreme III 4.0GB flash card reads at upto 20MB/sec where as Western Digital says it's mainstream hard drive reads at upto 100MB/sec (ATA/100). Of course the 4.0GB compact flash card costs about $500. You could also use a thumb drive and USB 2.0 to do this, but that would eliminate the use of DOS. A hard drive would seem more appropriate for a full size cab where heat really should not be an issue, but it might good for smaller sized projects. just my 2 cents |
| MameJunkie:
--- Quote from: Peale on December 14, 2004, 02:46:55 pm ---300,000 writes, but what about reads? --- End quote --- On flash memory, its writing that wears it out. Not the reads. At work, we use nvram that has ~100,000 write cycles. |
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