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Jonathan King wrote: Where do things stand on the issue of limited write/re-write cycles of flash memory and the ease of a small electrical glitch to fry the entire drive as is seen in flash memory in use in thumb drives, cell phones, mp3 players, cameras, etc? While I would love the lower power consumption, noise, heat and resistance to being damaged by physical abuse, I can't see relying on something with these inherent death-knells for my data. Are these issues something of the past? I've not understood why they don't start making MP3 players with MicroSD slots. I can't understand people buying iPods with 4gb of memory when you could build the thing with a remove-able backing like a cell-phone and slots for 10 or 20 MicroSD cards at 4gb apiece. (maybe it could even be like a pistol magazine or a PEZ dispenser) Start with 4gb and add as you can afford it or your needs change. I've often wondered how densely slots and cards could be packed and if it could approximate the space and capacity of regular laptop drives. What an interesting RAID system where the controller keeps track of writes to each card (and stores them on the card... sort of as an odometer the car-dealer cannot roll-back), and as a card's lifetime was drawing to a close or as errors were detected, you could just swap out that card for a new one. It would be even more interesting if the RAID controller was programmed in such a way as to stagger utilization to allow for failures to be staggered so you were only needing to replace cards on a pretty calculated schedule. I don't know enough about raid controllers to know if this is how things are done currently, or if drives are even treated like they are _expected_ to fail after a pre-calculated lifetime.On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:41 PM, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote: -- Christian M. Cepel - Thistledowne Productions - http://thistledowne.org Computer Support Specialist, Sr. - University of Missouri - Columbia College of Education - School of Info Science & Learning Technologies VRCbd, KidTools & StrategyTools Support Systems Projects, and Truman, Library Whistlestop Project - Web Design & Programming - 573.999.2370 |
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