Am 18.01.2011 11:36, schrieb Peter:
Tobias Fröschle wrote:
For me it should be faster than a floppy disk but can be slower
than a hard disk.
I am surprised that speed seems not _that_ big issue for most.
I hope this does not originate from the perception that SD cards
can be swapped at any time, like a floppy replacement.
As mentioned in my first posting, the device would be like
a harddisk. The native file driver does not allow hot
swapping - at least not yet. Only the mtools (for non-native
FAT access) implement a hot swapping concept - at the expense
of initializing the SD card, everytime mtools is called.
All the best
Peter
Peter,
this was probably a bit misleading.
It's not about swapping SD cards. It's about _not_ having to swap
floppies all the time. I can very well live with the speed of my
floppies nowadays, but having to swap floppy disks whenever I change
between xChange and programming (or whatever) is a real nuisance once
you got used to harddisks. Having a harddisk-like SD card would relieve
me from that. And yes, I think I'm fine with one SD per session and no
support for hot-swap of SD cards.
Should I really feel like swapping something, I still got my floppy
drive ;-)
And: Speed is not really an issue (at least for me). Speed equivalent to
a floppy drive would suffice - Albeit, if it's faster, it doesn't hurt.
Cheers,
Tobias
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