Ben Sandee wrote: >> Flash memory wears >> out, or has 'memory', so you don't want to write to it a zillion times. > > Somewhat true, but this 'fact' (which will soon be an urban legend) is > developing a life of its own as technology changes underneath it.
Right, "flash memory" is changing rapidly, and some of the newest solid state drives are at least as robust as rotating memory is. Of course, the huge installed base of cheap thumb drives tend to be the older technology, which is far less suitable for buffers than the newest stuff. Flash Memory has been "the next great thing" in memory for at least 15 years, and it is starting to actually be pretty cool. Still, the thumb drive that has been on my key chain for the past 18+ months has probably been written to only fifty to hundred times, and I expect that is fairly typical. > But your other points are definitely valid. And this buffer idea is not likely to be what the OP had in mind anyway.... -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
