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- From: toin@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl (Toin Bloo)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
- Subject: Re: Psion S3 SSDs - RAM v FLASH
- Message-ID: <7108@tuegate.tue.nl>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 15:28:43 GMT
- References: <1993Jan20.174139.1077@city.cs>
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- Organization: MCGV Stack, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.
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- Lionel Tun (lionel@cs.city.ac.uk) wrote:
- : In article <7033@tuegate.tue.nl> toin@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl (Toin Bloo) writes:
- : >If you bother about speed, buy RAM. Flash is slower.
- :
- : 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.
- :
- : Can anyone comment on how significant these shortcomings
- : are?
- :
-
- These things are of NO significance. The Flash SSD are slower indeed, but I
- even don't mention the difference in speed between my Internal disk and my SSD.
- I think the decrease in battery life due to 3Link is more significant then
- that of Flash versus Ram.
- Remember that Ram drains current still if your Psion is switched off, the
- Flash not. For me, my Psion is only 1/3 of the day on so *this* counts!
-
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