Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 08:37:55 -0500 From: Rick Mansfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] disk drive for ff1100v
The L110's IDE read speed is capped at 4MB/s, though. What good is a 30MB/s drive if you can only get 4MB/s on the controller? On 11/2/05, Vitaly Pavlenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > > > -- -Rick
