Re: Compact Flash RAM success

2002-04-13 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
on 4/11/02 11:29 PM, (PowerBooks) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Cameron Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Compact Flash RAM success In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] from Bruce Johnson at Apr 11, 2 11:27:10 am Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 17:54:29 -0700 (PDT

Re: Compact Flash RAM success

2002-04-13 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
on 4/13/02 12:22 AM, (PowerBooks) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 14:29:38 -0700 From: Bruce Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Compact Flash RAM success Cameron Kaiser wrote: IBM advertises these things as being faster than flash cards...it's got a sustained I/O

Re: Compact Flash RAM success

2002-04-12 Thread Cameron Kaiser
IBM advertises these things as being faster than flash cards...it's got a sustained I/O of over 4MB/sec. Yes, but what is the seek time? That may be more relevant. average is 12 ms, track to track is 1, full track is 19 ms. See, I think that's more the issue. While the sustained transfer

Re: Compact Flash RAM success

2002-04-11 Thread Cameron Kaiser
Are these real HD's? If so and you use it as VRAM, like I am the flash memory, it won't even come close speedwise. With the flash memory as VRAM, I can hardly tell the difference between it and real system RAM, whereas, using the HD for VRAM, things are _really_ slow, because of the

Re: Compact Flash RAM success

2002-04-10 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 16:46:29 -0700 From: Bruce Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Compact Flash RAM success Ken Norris (dialup) wrote: BTW, 1gb flash cards and PC cards are now available, plus, up to 512mb Ultra Compact Flash cards with incredibly