On 9/19/05, Tracy R Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> > There have been a few people wondering about the speed of USB devices
> > and why they can't get 480 Megabits/sec out of their plug-in memory
> > sticks.
>
> This sort of flash memory is notoriously slow to write. I would never
> expect plug-in memory sticks to get anywhere near 480Mb/s. So it's not
> the transfer speed, it is the speed of actually writing the data into
> the flash. If I recall correctly not all flash is created equal and they
> are working on faster writing flash all the time so digital pictures and
> movies etc. can be stored closer to real-time.
>
Yeah. disk drives are like that too. It's amazing how many people
wonder why they can't get 160 Megabytes/sec out of their Ultra160 SCSI
drives. It's sort of like why they can't drive 200mph with their VW
beetle on the Indianapolis Speedway.
carl
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