On Sunday 11 June 2006 08:24 am, Dileep M. Kumar wrote: > On 6/10/06, Mukund Deshmukh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Cheap USB drive will last 100,000 cycles only. > > Just to know. how does a normal flash memory and 'flash' hard > drives differ in their make.
A flash drive has an ide interface and software to translate the c/h/s to address:offset. Internally it is plain old flash with some ram as cache. Some wear levelling algorithm is also built in - which can play havoc if u loose power at the wrong time. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
