Re: Flash Cards

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From: Rich Payne
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 14:10

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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.  

Wait a sec...  How can you say both this, and...

[...]

>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.

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. 

Then again, I have not actually seen a spec sheet or anything, so I
am probably misinformed some ways.

><-:(= Anthony Stieber	anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu   uwm!uwmcsd4!anthony

Rich

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Subject: Re: Flash Cards
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Date: 23 Aug 92 14:10:48 GMT
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