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Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:48:40 -0500
From: Carlos Moreno <moreno_pg@mochima.com>
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Subject: Re: compact flash disks?
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>
> Much better to use flash RAM for read heavy applications.
> Even there you have to be careful that seek performance, not 
> throughput, is what is gating your day to day performance with those 
> tables.


Isn't precisely there where Flash disks would have *the* big advantage??

I mean, access time is severely held down by the *mechanical* movement of
the heads to the right cylinder on the disk --- that's a brutally large 
amount of
time compared to anything else happening on the computer  (well, floppy
disks aside, and things like trying-to-break-128-bit-encryption  aside  
:-)).

Or are these Flash disks so slow that they compare to the HD's latency 
figures?

Carlos
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