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Compact Flash hard drives
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?
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On flash memory, its writing that wears it out. Not the reads.
At work, we use nvram that has ~100,000 write cycles.