Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 14:24:48 +0300 From: Vitaly Pavlenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] disk drive for ff1100v
> From: Rick Mansfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Flash isn't that bad, these days. The prices and chip sizes have been > improving dramatically in the last couple years. For instance, a 4gb > compactflash card is now around $200: > you could get 2.5x the read speed (10MB/s for a CF card vs 4MB/s for the Yes, but the progress in hard drive technology has been probably even more impressive. Now for mobile storage for ~$100 you get ~80 GB that perform at ~30 MB/s. The gap between 2 technologies does not seem to close, let's be realistic. Regards, Vitaly
