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Old August 25th 04, 01:49 AM
Eric Gisin
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"P.T. Breuer" wrote in message
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or simply drop in a flash hard drive drive. These 2.5" flash drives
have 100% no moving parts, and are 100% silent in operation. You can


However, they won't operate for long. They have very limited number of
write cycles.

Nonsense. Flash hard drives are designed for harsh environments, and have ECC
and sector remapping just like hard drives. They can use other tricks like
rotating frequently written sectors.

buy them cheap off www.ebay.com (eg. 800MB for ~$40) and they turn any
laptop into a silent notebook (assuming CPU fan doesn't make sounds, if


Unfortunately, also a dead deadbook, very shortly, if you expect the
flash drive to hold up.

Flash memory cards have no smarts, yet I don't see them dropping like flies.