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Brad
Selfish Heathen
 
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
 
2006-03-12, 13:49

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Originally Posted by TheWretched
And what is wrong with flash memory to replace the hard drive? Again, I'm new to the tech aspects of computers, but I always thought that flash storage means a lot faters, and a lot more space, including not being affected by the temperature that much.
1. Flash is MUCH more expensive per byte. By magnitudes. You can get a quarter-terabyte hard drive for the price of a 2 GB Flash stick.
2. Flash lifespan is much shorter for write operations.

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