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Flash memory of course... Just think about having a HDD built on NAND-technology... It would shorten the boot up time on a computer to a few seconds, compared to todays 1-2 minutes... The only disadvantage is the price and that it must constantly have power or it'll lose the data as RAM does...

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Posted: 2006-08-19 02:21:18
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Thats not entirely true some the new flash drives dont need to have power to retain their memory This message was posted from a K750
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Posted: 2006-08-19 08:12:07
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Just for interests sake? What is the maximum number of transactions (or megabytes transfered, or however it is measured) on a memory card?

TBH this is the first I've heard of it.
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Posted: 2006-08-19 10:52:50
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@jasond
Do you mean cycles?
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Posted: 2006-08-19 10:55:27
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Most probably!
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Posted: 2006-08-19 11:37:48
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Well, on wikipedia it says that most commercial products buanrantee a 1 million rewrite cycle, although I remember reading a few months back, that the cheaper brands (of USBs) tend to have higher failure rates, and the good brands have about 500,000 rewrites. But maybe it's changed now, and the number's gone up to 1 million
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Posted: 2006-08-19 12:06:35
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any one heard about segates new 40 gb pocket micro harddisk
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Posted: 2006-08-19 13:40:21
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Quote:
On 2006-08-19 12:06:35, shaliron wrote:
Well, on wikipedia it says that most commercial products buanrantee a 1 million rewrite cycle, although I remember reading a few months back, that the cheaper brands (of USBs) tend to have higher failure rates, and the good brands have about 500,000 rewrites. But maybe it's changed now, and the number's gone up to 1 million


the cheapest usb memory often fails after a few thousand writes only. However that's the ultra cheap stuff - anything with a brand name should be safe to buy.

But if you want to use flash memory in place of a computer's hard drives then you will need many times more than a million write cycles over the life of the computer. Flash memory just won't cut it for that kind of use (yet).

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Posted: 2006-08-20 02:50:14
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oh what will the futur bring ahy? there already looking into 128bit systems we got our dual cores our 64bit dual cores but people still use XP 32bit loltbh should hult production on CPU's for now there are 2 many sockets andbrads out now miss the old ways (of socket 7 and slot 1 and socket 370 ) to people with a life thats
socket 7 - Pentium 1
slot 1/2 - P2/P3
Socket 370 - P4 and very early P4
then we got
Socket A and 478 - P4/AMD Athlon XP/semprons
754/755 AMD 64 athlon (upto 3300+)
939/940 - 64bit athlon (3400+ - 4000+)

and from there on in i dunno we get a new MB range of sockets it seems like once every say 4 months...

anyway
should stop develop ment on FSB's - Ghz and general CPU's and focus on SATA/II with all its overheating CPU problems, get the FSB actulery running at 800mhz not at a physical 555mhz (this is due to RAM, SOuthbrridges and all that crap) and ge flash running to slowly take over HDD's and llow the noise spinning mass storage information super store relax and take a nice retiarment like FDD's/ZIP100/400 when USB flash hit it big...

thats my view anyway
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Posted: 2006-08-20 03:22:13
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hard drives are still the only reliable long term storage format for computers. Flash memory based pc's are still a long way off.
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Posted: 2006-08-20 04:14:33
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