Chipp Walters wrote:
Just guessing, but even if it's non-volatile RAM, I would expect it to
be faster than a hard drive as typically RAM writes are significantly
faster than hard disk writes (think of your virtual memory cache).
Very different mechanism under the hood, from what little I know.
I was able to turn up an interview with Seagate CEO Bill Watkins which
addresses this:
If you want to have a very rich audio or video experience,
no matter what you do, you're going to need a hard drive.
Flash memory can't handle the data rates that a hard drive
can. The data rates on flash are too slow to handle
high-quality video and audio.
<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/sep2005/tc20050927_1608_tc057.htm?campaign_id=rss_tech>
I still haven't found specifics on Flash drive speed relative to hard
drives, but at least we have one authoritative voice to confirm what we
see in our own experience: Flash drives are convenient, but not
necessarily zippy.
--
Richard Gaskin
Managing Editor, revJournal
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