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. > -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.ml.org
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