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Posted by AZ Nomad on 01/30/07 00:16
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:00:13 GMT, Scott Lurndal <scott@slp53.sl.home> wrote:
>MassiveProng <MassiveProng@thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> writes:
>>On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 00:54:46 +0000, Phineas T Puddleduck
>><phineaspuddleduck@googlemail.com> Gave us:
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>>>In article <45ba9758.2858281@news.clara.net>, hi@anony (habshi) wrote:
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>>>> It should fall in price rapidly but even at this price it is
>>>> reusable one can download hi def movies and watch them on the hi def
>>>> plasma tv.
>>>> An 8GB flash drive is just $100 at bigpockets.co.uk
>>>
>>>
>>>You should set up your own (non)think tank!
>>
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>> The data rate required in COMPRESSED Form coming off the disc will
>>not be achieved by flash memory for a LONG time to come.
>You are confusing the data rate from the transport (typically USB)
>with the datarate from the underlying flash memory chips. As pointed
>out upthread, the upcoming solid state disk drives (flash behind a
>SATA transport and interface) can easily sustain datarates far better
>than DVD and as good as the fastest 15kRPM fibrechannel drives.
Free hint: the limiting factor isn't the USB2 interface.
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