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Unread 06-11-2005, 01:26
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Re: Hard Drive shock protection

I realize that if your looking for vibration resistant media, flash would be your best bet. However, I'm a little weary about using flash as the primary storage on a computer. My concern is wearing out the cells. Flash can only go through a finite number of read/write cycles. For something like a camera, it's fine because you'll usually fill up the card before erasing it. A computer however, will be constantly changing data. A file that's rewritten very often (maybe a log), it would wear out the flash very quickly.
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