12 Jun
2006
12 Jun
'06
5:14 a.m.
On Sunday 11 June 2006 08:24 am, Dileep M. Kumar wrote:
On 6/10/06, Mukund Deshmukh betacomp_ngp@sancharnet.in wrote:
Cheap USB drive will last 100,000 cycles only.
Just to know. how does a normal flash memory and 'flash' hard drives differ in their make.
A flash drive has an ide interface and software to translate the c/h/s to address:offset. Internally it is plain old flash with some ram as cache. Some wear levelling algorithm is also built in - which can play havoc if u loose power at the wrong time.
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