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- From: eric@chemeng.ed.ac.uk (Eric S Fraga)
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- Subject: Re: Psion S3 SSDs - RAM v FLASH
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- Date: 22 Jan 93 10:31:04 GMT
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- Lionel Tun (lionel@cs.city.ac.uk) wrote:
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- : Hhhmm. I have now heard two negative things about flash.
- : One is that it is slower, the other is that it drains the
- : batteries more than ram.
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- really? i would have expected that a RAM disk would have drained the battery
- faster than a Flash SSD disk. Can somebody confirm either belief? I am
- about to buy one or the other and although RAM appeals for ease of use, the
- price difference leads me to lean to the Flash type...
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- eric
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