P.T. Breuer wrote:

In comp.sys.laptops Eric Gisin wrote:
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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

Then they'll need it.

rotating frequently written sectors.

That is a good idea. The max write cycle on flash memory is only a few
hundred times.

Anywhere from 10,000 to 100,000 for current devices.

Spreading that load over the whole disk instead of a
single sector would dramatically help.

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.

Yes you do, because yes they do.

Peter

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