From: John Kim (kim_at_stormhaven.org)
Date: Thu Jul 01 1999 - 16:57:16 EDT
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Paul Rubin wrote:
>
> I've bitten the bullet and gotten the quietest drive of them all, a
> totally silent 160 MB Viking PCMCIA type II flash card (about $350 now).
>
> I've used one flash-drive computer before (HP Omnibook 300 with 10 MB card)
> and loved it. The flash card beats the heck out of a hard drive.
> Rotating storage seems like a decaying monstrosity, like CRT monitors.
> Flash drives with 320 MB are available now and 1 GB drives will probably
> be available by the end of the year ($$$$$$). I believe that with some
Just a word of warning. IIRC, flash memory is slower than a
hard drive, on the order of floppy drive speeds for writes.
Reads are nice and quick though.
-- John H. Kim kim_at_stormhaven.org
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