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Any Thoughts on Reliability?
In a discussion I had a with a friend about these new laptops a few weeks back, he
very enthusiastically predicted that flash-drive replacements will be "more
reliable" than hard drives.

I asked him at the time why he'd make such a prediction, and it came out that he
basically just "likes" solid-state technology, and he was basing the prediction on
his personal preferences.

I'm no expert on flash technology--I've been using it for decades, but I've only
had a pocket flash-drive for about a year, and haven't had any problems with it.

Is the data stored in flash as "robust" as data written to HDD?

Is there any data on how resistant flash is to corruption caused by things like EMF?
Posted by: blunderdog   Posted on: 04/11/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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Any Thoughts on Reliability?  blunderdog | 04/11/07
Mechanicals?  ejhonda | 04/11/07
Well it appears most drive failures may be surface related  mrlinux | 04/11/07
There is less to go wrong  R Harris ZDNet Moderator | 04/11/07
Measurments  voska | 04/11/07
you're not far off  impala_sc | 05/02/07
SSD Performance/Reliability  D. T. Schmitz | 04/11/07
Note what they leave out  R Harris ZDNet Moderator | 04/11/07
StorageMojo No Go!  D. T. Schmitz | 04/11/07
Forget about Flash!  joemartn | 04/11/07
Why would random writes be slow? Flash doesn't have moving parts!  CobraA1 | 04/11/07
Writes are just plain slow in general  Mr. Big | 04/11/07
Whoops  Mr. Big | 04/11/07
RE: Writes are just plain slow in general  gdstark13 | 04/14/07
What about Firmware OS?  jt@... | 04/14/07
RE: What about Firmware OS?  gdstark13 | 04/14/07
Rainbow Technology  deep@... | 04/17/07

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