tyler_durden wrote: > The only functionality added in the SB would be to recognize the > thumbdrive and use it as the buffer. Maybe a thumbdrive can't be > accessed where read and write take place almost simultaneously...
I'm not one to address whether or not this (the thumb-on-SB idea) is a good idea, but flash drives are very bad buffers. Flash memory wears out, or has 'memory', so you don't want to write to it a zillion times. Using flash memory for a buffer or swap space is just not a good idea. When flash memory is used as a pseudo-disk, the driver sprays writes to different sectors to avoid over working any one part. For buffers, you want to use boring old RAM, or for specialized cases, RAM setup as a queue in hardware. For MP3 or FLAC files that a SB handles natively, since the SB2, you are approaching negligible improvement with larger buffers unless you have really bad wireless networking. Of course, for non-native lossless, you might occasionally need a larger buffer, but why would you want to use something besides FLAC :-) Pat -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
