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- From: payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel,comp.sys.palmtops
- Subject: Re: Flash Cards
- Message-ID: <fr-n==q.payner@netcom.com>
- Date: 23 Aug 92 14:10:48 GMT
- References: <1992Aug17.102539.8782@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> <1992Aug19.133302.3243@crd.ge.com> <1992Aug23.050415.14904@uwm.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug23.050415.14904@uwm.edu> anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber) writes:
- [...]
- >In addition, although the Kittyhawk is very durable for a hard drive
- >(100g operating shocks) a solid state device could probably take
- >several times that. Flash EPROM devices take much less power to run,
- >have very fast consistant read access times, and are immune to magnetic
- >fields.
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- Wait a sec... How can you say both this, and...
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- [...]
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- >The Microsoft Flash File System is supposed to fix some of the problems
- >with writes. One is that it takes seconds to erase a sector, where a
- >sector might be 256KB or more.
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- This? Flash EPROM sounds interesting, but it still seems to me that
- the voltage and power requirements to -write- to it are far above the
- power requirements for a small drive. It would not seem that the present
- FLASH EPROM would be a replacement for current small HD's. But I think
- it still would be usefull.
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- Then again, I have not actually seen a spec sheet or anything, so I
- am probably misinformed some ways.
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- ><-:(= Anthony Stieber anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu uwm!uwmcsd4!anthony
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- Rich
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- payner@netcom.com
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