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Flash Memory And Its future

Posted by timothy on from the let-the-insecurities-out dept.

NETHED writes "C|NET News is running an article about Flash Memory's future. Here is a How Stuff Works link about Flash memory. An interesting read especially considering how small these things are currently. Does the slashdot crowd have a new size benchmark for small sizes?"

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  1. IEEE Spectrum article by hp48 · · Score: 5, Informative

    IEEE Spectrum also has an article dealing with the future flash technologies in the current issue

  2. xD Flash Memory by dopaz · · Score: 5, Informative

    I recently bought a Fuji FinePix 2650 digital camera, which uses xD picture cards. They are the smallest standard on the market (i think). Here's a picture of all the different types... xD is on the right. Its small, but unlike smartmedia it is not thin. Its rigid and feels durable. I think capacities can scale up to 1GB with the architecture. The only drawback is that the standard was created by Fuji and Olympus, and I don't know if it will be offered by other manufacturers.

  3. Re:In console cartridges... by La+Temperanza · · Score: 5, Informative

    No, that was standard RAM kept working by a lithium battery, which in Zelda carts is often long dead. A lot of PC motherboards, even brand-new ones, still store BIOS settings this way. Those few cents of extra profit add up, I guess.

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  4. Re:Two words by quasi_steller · · Score: 5, Informative

    Moving parts.

    Hard-drives are not as robust as solid state memory devices. Usually the first thing to go on any computer is the hard-drive because the mechanical parts fail, causing data loss. This is especially true for portable devices that may be dropped.

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    ...interesting if true.