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

Small flash disks are coming way down in price (I may have a couple
175Mb type 2 PCMCIA Flash drives for sale in a couple weeks, if I can
talk this guy out of them.  I'll announce if/when.)  I expect they'll
come on down below $1/Mb as the IBM drives & etc. come out.

  Mark, 

hurley bryan wrote:
> 
> 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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