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Re: HDD-less wearable/CD-Rom for a HDD?

From: hurley bryan <>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 10:51:41 -0500 (EST)

remember, that flash can only be written about a million times. Though I
am thinking that this may not be the biggest deal recently, since
minidiscs write about the same number of times, but that is in big chunks
and I will never write that many discs, but if you are surfing the web and
caching files and have a swap disc, then maybe... Or just don't do either
of those.

Bryan

On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Tim Gray wrote:

> Actually with the price of flash disks dropping so rapidly, I'd do a solid
> state disk.
> have ram, and 2 flash disks. one removable for data swap.
> but all in all a cdrom drive draws 2 to 3 times the power than a laptop ide
> drive does, the cdrom cannot handle movement while
> jogging,walking,breathing hard. and unless you used a caddy system for the
> cd wierd angles would make disk insertion and removal a pain.  Now if they
> could get cdroms to work better under movement. (audio cdplayers cheat by
> loading 2 to 4 meg of ram with the audio stream so that skips wont be
> noticed, and minor vobrations cause data corruption that your ears cant
> hear but the computer would freak at.
> 

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