From: "Geo" 

"Adam" <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the
field.near the bridge"> wrote in message
news:44754732$1{at}w3.nls.net...

> > these are actually pretty slow. Also I wouldn't trust them, I've had too
> > many usb memory sticks fail to trust flash memory at this point.

> I have a feeling it is the future though.

Perhaps the immediate future, and reliability can only improve. But I've
also read about crystal storage. I like that idea much better.

> they are basically printable vs all the motors, assembly etc wrt hdd'es.
> Also they are potentially much faster & lower power/cooler/quieter.

I have an 8gb ram stick, it is anything but cool.

> It's the read write life I'm more interested in. it's mostly the log
> file problem i.e. the actual number of rapidly changing files on most
> people's systems are fairly small (logs & swap mostly).

It would be simple to have these files moved to a different memory chip
(like cache) so that you aren't actually writing the bulk to flash.

Geo.

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