From: Lionel Bouton <lionel-subscription@bouton.name>
To: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
Cc: Erik Slagter <erik@slagter.name>, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: USB-Storage, slow speed with sync option
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 17:38:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <432843E5.1060209@bouton.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43284126.8040007@rtr.ca>
Mark Lord wrote the following on 14.09.2005 17:26 :
> Erik Slagter wrote:
>
>>
>> It's a very bad solution, because it's slow, but worse, it wears out
>> particular sectors, although the only good option (make the stick
>> non-removable when in use is not quite feasible).
>
>
> Bad, YES. Slow, VERY.
>
> Wears out sectors? Not really.
> These flash sticks, along with CF and SD cards, all include
> built-in controllers that do automatic wear-leveling.
Do they all have such controllers now? Last time I checked, low quality
parts didn't have them and it wasn't easy to verify which ones did.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-14 15:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-14 0:53 USB-Storage, slow speed with sync option Stefan
2005-09-14 9:31 ` Erik Slagter
2005-09-14 10:27 ` Stefan
2005-09-14 10:33 ` Erik Slagter
2005-09-14 10:43 ` Stefan
2005-09-14 12:45 ` Lionel Bouton
2005-09-14 12:51 ` Erik Slagter
[not found] ` <87f94c37050914055852ff4789@mail.gmail.com>
2005-09-14 13:04 ` Erik Slagter
2005-09-14 15:26 ` Mark Lord
2005-09-14 15:38 ` Lionel Bouton [this message]
2005-09-14 21:38 ` Mark Lord
2005-09-14 13:37 ` Stefan
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