true, but if they are based on the same tech as always, then they have a limited write lifespan, and are good for the purposes they list in the article, like atm, and other automated tasks that don't run an OS that is constantly swapping to disk.. but more likely performing lookups on aa DB on the disk that may be updated daily or weekly, but not every second, so it has a longer lifespan than using in a normal notebook or wearable, esp with a a journalling filesystem. too bad SRAM costs too much.. i have a 2 mb card that I got with something.. 8mb are crazy costly.. they don't have the lifespan problems, but are more expensive and require battery backup to function properly even with the above, I may use a 256mb cf card to boot from and then mount the 1gig microdrive as needed to keep power usage low.. Bryan On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Andrew Plumb wrote: > Just noticed this article on EE-Times: > > "Toshiba offers flash drives as hard-disk replacements" > http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20011001S0049 > > They've existed for a while from other companies (browse EMJ Embedded > options - not cheap!), but this promises to be the first mass-market attempt > to replace existing mechanical drives with 2.5" and 3.5" Flash-based > equivalents. > > It's about time! :-) > > Andrew. > > -- > Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of > "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to> Wear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org > please, Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/false domain > -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to
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