Frankly the bus interface has nothing to do with the inherent problems with Flash. Those problems are as described below:
1.
Read and write are not symmetrical. Generally writes to flash are much slower than reads.
2.
Flash is not durable, only so many read cycles can be performed.
3.
Flash isn't particularly dense. You would need many chips for most PC applications.
Now the above items are constantly under attack by the vendors through research and development. That does not mean though that they have taken a leadership position with respect to anything.
For servers Flash just couldn't be counted on at this time. For a portable the argument is different, depending on usage it may be feasable. Such a laptop though would probally be considered experimental or if not that at least something that would have to prove itself in the market.
Where Flash would excell would be in a portable designed with the intention to network with a host machine for transient storage. This would be a tablet or laptop that uses an RF link to store frequently changed data. That is the types of data that tend to wear Flash. Flash might also do well in a clinet machine on a corporate network, agian the server being the key storage area.
Dave
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Originally posted by mynamehere
That has nothing to do with the read/write speed of flash memory since you did it over USB (ie: the USB is what's slowing down the transfer, not the speed of the flash media itself)
Flash-based internal drives would be ideal in a server-type environment such as a high-traffic web server...right?
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Originally posted by thesosguy
What about the iPod thing? If these drives are cheap enough that is...
those drives wear out quickly with continuous use. That's why it's not a good idea to boot from one. Also, I believe they're 1" drives not 1.8"
1.
Read and write are not symmetrical. Generally writes to flash are much slower than reads.
2.
Flash is not durable, only so many read cycles can be performed.
3.
Flash isn't particularly dense. You would need many chips for most PC applications.
Now the above items are constantly under attack by the vendors through research and development. That does not mean though that they have taken a leadership position with respect to anything.
For servers Flash just couldn't be counted on at this time. For a portable the argument is different, depending on usage it may be feasable. Such a laptop though would probally be considered experimental or if not that at least something that would have to prove itself in the market.
Where Flash would excell would be in a portable designed with the intention to network with a host machine for transient storage. This would be a tablet or laptop that uses an RF link to store frequently changed data. That is the types of data that tend to wear Flash. Flash might also do well in a clinet machine on a corporate network, agian the server being the key storage area.
Dave
Originally posted by mynamehere
That has nothing to do with the read/write speed of flash memory since you did it over USB (ie: the USB is what's slowing down the transfer, not the speed of the flash media itself)
Flash-based internal drives would be ideal in a server-type environment such as a high-traffic web server...right?