Good Day!
On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 01:24:22PM +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote:
<SNIP>
> > 128MB USB flash is less than 1k PhP, according to the "Villman
> > Index" [1] ;)
> By your own arguments you also pointed out that solid-state IDE flash
> as found in flash drives and solid-state hard disks ARE STILL FAR MORE
> EXPENSIVE per megabyte compared to mechanical IDE drives. Given that a
> 40GB IDE hard disk would cost you only around P3000 at OEM costs,
> assuming that a 128MB flash drive would be at P1000, you'd only get
> 384MB of storage at the same price.
Our context here is a storage device for an *embedded router*.
You have to strip your file system, you have to be careful and watch
file system writes. It (storage) has to survive unclean shutdowns, heck
it even has to survive a few bumps. I know people abuse their ipods or
whatever is the current faddy mp3 player around, but their is a reason
cisco|juniper|extreme|foundry net devices use flash as their main storage,
and humongous capacity isn't one of them.
> Paolo Alexis Falcone
Mabuhay! barryg
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