On 5/30/07, Tony Smith <ajsmith@rivernet.com.au> wrote:
>
> > >USB 2.0 is faster than most LANs (480 vs 100Mbps).
> > >
> > >Tony
> >
> > But significantly slower than Ultra ATA, and much, much
> > slower than the next generation SATA standard (3Gbits/s).
>
>
> Of course, internal is always faster.  Internal flash won't be as fast as
> a
> hard drive (yet), but for a laptop power usage is a big consideration.
>
> Flash drives will be rather quiet though (media PC).



Tony is right. Depending on the application, speed is not always an issue.
Regular A/V streams (think media PC) be just fine off of a flash-disk. It's
like me not needing a Porsche to do the shopping in...  ( Well, actually I
do. I just don't have the money for one -yet-! As the same money-issue also
effects me buying a beefy flash disk for my PC, I'll stick with the faster
and CHEAPER HDU's for a while! Poor me! )

Has anyone heard of FeRAM? It sounds promising; it's probably expensive
too...     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferroelectric_RAM



Sean
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