Re: W2K RAMlimits

["Jim Wingo" <jimw203@mindspring.com>]

I just read an article written in 2000 that may shed additional light on
the limits in using flash media in a scratch disk application. The salient
portion reads: 

Flash SSDs are great for applications in which data is frequently read from
memory but not often written to it. Like a mechanical hard drive, a flash
SSD can be read a virtually unlimited number of times. However, the same is
not true for writes: most individual flash devices (which are actually
charge-coupled devices) can handle only about 100,000 writes before they
won't charge -- that is, change state -- anymore.

The full article may be found at 
http://www.idg.net/english/crd_drives_400090.html

Jim Wingo


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