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Samsung's Linux-based Diskless Camcorder
An anonymous reader writes "LinuxDevices has a story about the Samsung Miniket, a digital camcorder the size of a pack of cards that also works as a portable MP3 player, webcam, voice recorder, storage device, and more. The Miniket (annoying Flash and sound) will be available in February or March in the US, for $600-$700, with a rugged 'sports' model to follow. The device runs Linux, boots in under a second, and is the first of several products from Samsung that will run a new variation of Linux called 'ARM-no-MMU.' LinuxDevices also has a whitepaper about Samsung research that shows the new Linux variant to be faster than normal Linux."
My guess that it uses some sort of flash memory, which is technicially not a 'disk'.
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Since it has no MMU. Without the overhead of actually having to manage the memory, it's got to be faster.
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Yea, some guys a while back figured out how to fix that. S'called RAM. Cheap 256M RAM stick would fix all of that unhappiness.
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Why don't they used Compact Flash or Secure Digital rather than the damn Sony proprietary junk?
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What type of Flash memory is significantly faster than a hard drive?
The highest end Flash memory I see at Sandisk's site writes at 20MB/s. This is on the lower end of what 2.5" notebook hard drives are capable of and well below what a 3.5" drive could do.
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Memory Stick! Bleh.
I wonder what made them make such a poor choice. The right choice would have been to go with Compact Flash or SD, if you want smaller.
Memory stick is still a Sony bound product (I know that now there are other manufacturers) and underperforms other cards, since there's no such fierce competition.
I see this as a big minus.
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Is this a limitation or am I just not understanding the statement?
"Playback Fast-Forware and Rewind up to a maximum of 128 times."
"Files created with our Minikit are designed for playback with the included software and our DVD Recorders."
Can their files be exported to a format that I can playback in a program of MY choice? What can't I use my DVD recorder? I don't need another one from them.
Hmm... like most things, looks good 'till you peel back the layers.
If they've got the kernel to go faster, where's the source code? Don't they have to publish their diffs (under GPL), since they're distributing the new OS version with every camera?
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Oh oh let me guess...
I bet it's gonna be f'in YELLOW!!!!
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slightly higher per megabyte than CompactFlash cards
Yes, if you consider 20-100% higher slightly. Memorystick is a stupid, proprietary (even if they have one external lessee for their tech), technology that typically lags CF in both capacity and price drops. For example the cheapest 1GB CF card on Newegg is $63, cheapest MS Pro 1GB? $133. And that's not some aberation that I picked just to prove a point, I simply went to look for how far behind MS still is.
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Unless I'm mistaken here, this will allow one process to take down the entire machine, just like Windows.
Whereas otherwise you could always hope that the process wasn't important to whatever it was the camcorder was doing?