Use of memory card for caching?

[Ask Bjørn Hansen]

On Feb 10, 2007, at 7:33 AM, howard chen wrote:

> As memory card is becoming very cheap, e.g. less than $50 US can buy a
> fast Toshiba 4GB SD card in my district.

I thought the main advantage was that reading from a flash cards  
takes less battery in a laptop/ipod/phone/....  They aren't  
particularly fast compared to a hard drive and still insanely slow  
compared to real memory.

Also: Consumer flash cards have a very limited number of write cycles  
before they burn out.  "Industrial" cards are much better, but at  
least in low quantities they are quite expensive (relatively).



  - ask

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