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which one is better??? i think its flash cuz o no movin parts..less space..etc. etc.
but y r hard drivfes being used in cell phones..like the n91..wats all the hype about..
shouldn't flash b better cuz o the above mentioned reasons.
wat r the advantages of a hard drive over flash memory...or vice verca ???
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Posted: 2006-08-17 17:55:01
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Found a good (but somewhat old) article on this subject here....
http://www.storagesearch.com/semico-art1.html
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Posted: 2006-08-17 18:01:00
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well i would say flash...
flash has as menioned no moving parts so less power consumed also weight is ill near nill, flash sticks can be changed to larger capacaties give it a few more years and you will be able to get 10gb flash MSPD lol you can already get 2gb and how ould is the stick? maybe a year since real comercial hit.. prob alot older but the 1 / 2gb sticks are new and if you ntice they double in size (space not physical)
harddrives also mess up easyer as the moving parts seze heads break, write cache fails, alot more bits can go wrong hence i think eventualy HDD's should be rulled out on PC's as well i've had alot of HDD OEM failers (rangeing for 160-250 SATA's) sod all this 1TB the adverage windows user needs at the most 60gb so if people invented a 60gb flash card the pc would be alot quieter as well flash is the way fwd
i've felt the real weight of an IPOD, Sony Walkman NW 20gb, w800/w810, and the N91 i found the w810/w800 to be the lightist and would only use this for daily short travel for portable music...
if i was going say to scottland from say london then i would use a harddrive MP3 player but i also find batts dont last...
all in all
flash
(sorry about the rant)
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Posted: 2006-08-17 18:10:49
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the one advantage where hard drives beats flash is price - at the current situation, it'll always be cheaper to manufacture a 4GB iPod mini than a 4GB iPod nano. That's bound to change eventually, definitely, but the reason why manufacturers still dont rule out hard disks (in all its forms = regular desktop HDDs, server storage capacity HDDs, microdrives, etc etc) is that they're just cheaper. HDDs may not have that a lot of space in the mobile phones space where portability, lower power consumption and durability/lesser chances of breaking due to dropping, but they sure will stick around much longer. Flash and HDDs will each have their own niche. Hence i think Nokia was too cheap to use a 4GB flash chip in the N91. Either that, or 4GB flash chips were not priced as competitively at the time of N91 R&D at the time of W950 R&D
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Posted: 2006-08-17 18:28:11
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I think that flash is better, for one its removable
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Posted: 2006-08-17 20:21:04
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In phones, it's definately flash.
I can't wait to see my friend drop his £500 N91...
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Posted: 2006-08-17 21:04:52
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The only two pros of hard drives vs. flash memory is:
1) Flash memory is quite a bit more expensive (but a worthy sacrifice for durability).
2) Hard drives have more read and rewrite cycles tan flash memory. Although this really doesn't matter that much, as you're probably more likely to have a hard drive failure than have too many rewrites on a flash player (who changes music thousands of times?).
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Posted: 2006-08-18 12:35:39
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i do lol
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Posted: 2006-08-18 13:01:24
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@slugworth
But you don't literally change the entire collection by deleting and re-writing gigabytes of data thousands of times do you?
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Posted: 2006-08-18 13:13:39
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Some users would come close, but the average user wouldn't have a hope of reaching the limit. The main reason HDD's are used is cost. They are massively cheaper per megabyte than flash memory
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Posted: 2006-08-19 01:56:29
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