800MB IDE flash drive....

[MaDDuck]

Am I the only one that thinks this is COOL??

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2790376836&category=51076

There's also this guy that put one in his A1200 and is auctioning it on ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3081192480&category=3543

Has anyone here used one? Is the performance *THAT* good??

[Dr_Righteous]

I imagine it'd be about the same as using a IDE2CF adapter, which I use in my A4000. It's got some pretty quick access time.

I'm pretty impressed with the size of that drive, in both capacity and physical size...

[Xand]

I was watching the 1200, but I didn't see the flash drive. If I had, I would have been bidding on it.

[Acill]

Just got one using buy it now for 41.95 and will let you all know how it works as a OS3.9 boot drive. I will be getting it express shipped. Here is a link for several more.  And for those that would like a compact flash adapter to IDE here are a few of them too.

Edit: URLs trimmed and coded in UBB style.  Kent

[MaDDuck]

...nice!
I'll keep watching to hear how it works out!

I'm especially curious as to how long a format takes and initial boot up!!

[voxel]

Hi :-)

Don't forget one little thing : Flash Memory is mortal!

Most of it will support 10000 to 100000 writing/erase before dieing :-(

@webmasters :-)

isn't it an automatic line wrapping option for forum topics? this one is looking horrible :-)

[MaDDuck]

voxel wrote:
Hi :-)

Don't forget one little thing : Flash Memory is mortal!

Most of it will support 10000 to 100000 writing/erase before dieing :-(

@webmasters :-)

isn't it an automatic line wrapping option for forum topics? this one is looking horrible :-)

That's a GOOD point, all things in this world ARE mortal!! APRX how long are we talking here though, 6months, 10years? Can it be measured in MTBF like OLD hard drives used to be measured??

[Kent]

voxel wrote:
@webmasters :-)

isn't it an automatic line wrapping option for forum topics? this one is looking horrible :-)

The problem has to do with the lack of "/" in the URI part of the URL.  Word wrapping is on, but most browsers trucate at "/".  This is also true of the MLA, APA, and Chicago style guide restrictions.  In the interim, I've edited the obscenely long url to a truncated and simple string.  The long url without the line wrapping is the way browsers are supposed to render those lines.

Hope that makes sense.

:pint:

[Kent]

Oh yeah, these items are totally sweet.  I honestly thought about picking up a few to set up a couple 0db servers.

:pint:

[voxel]

>Can it be measured in MTBF like OLD hard drives used to be measured??

Yes, as I said, when it reaches it's maximum erase count flash cells will stay in an unknow state, you will have more and more "bad blocks" until you ends with a totally useless hardware thingies :-)

[voxel]

>Word wrapping is on,...

It's way better now! thanx :-)

Have a :pint: on me :-D