Couldn't think where better to put this. I was pretty taken aback when I read about the 8GB SDHC cards- but it looks like good ol' Toshiba have produced a whooping 32GB storage card, which also has an 8GB little sister for phones. Sure, the price point probably ain't great right now, but I can't see us having many HDD-PMPs being developed come next year. Maybe the next iPod's already going to be purely flash based? Either way, it's just incredible how much storage these companies can compress into those little plastic cards now. p.s. I know there's a thread similar to this floating around somewhere, just don't have the time to dig it up. <A88>
32gb is starting to be usable to host your whole os. they just need to get around the multiple writes to the same area issue
They've got SSD for that. Dell even has a laptop which you can optionally fit with one. They're optimized for hosting your os (and apps).
only for the interoperability. If you want to run your system from one, I'm sure youncould format it as ntfs or hfs or whatever you please. The multiple writes shouldn't be an issue anymore with the location shifting stuff (forgot the actual name) and increased durability. But in honesty, sustained speeds still aren't fast enough to make it worthwhile.
Don't flash memory cards wear out quickly? Also, when a hard drive pops it's clogs it's usually possible to recover crucial data. I doubt you could recover anything from a broken flash drive......
Flash does have a limited life, as every write degrades the sector it's being written to. This is why I want to see more development of non-volatile versions of RAM.
You should have a backup of important files, no matter what you use for storage! It's pretty common that disks are completely unreadable after they fail.
They do, which is why FRAM and MRAM are currently in development. Think the non-volatility of Flash but with the speed and unlimited read/write cycles of regular RAM.
