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  • Well, because Flash RAM doesn't have any moving parts (as opposed to a hardrive), there is more that can go wrong with it. For example, it would be more likely to break if dropped. But that is just what my friend told me; he knows a LOT more about it than I do. A bigger draw to Flash is its energy efficiency, it would use less battery, need to be charged less, and the battery would last longer before having to be replaced. I guess that is the biggest reason for wanting Flash, because iPods only have so many charge cycles before the battery has to be replaced. I read that the battery in the iPod Classic will probably have to be replaced after about a year and a half if it is used a lot. Is that true? How long do they usually last if you use them several hours every day?
    RChesak had this to say on Oct 05, 2007 Posts: 3
    AAM: Three's a Crowd
  • I have a question that I feel will only get answered if I ask it on a recent blog. I was reading an blog posted in 2005 ("Flash Based Laptops, Sooner Than You Think" by James R. Stoup Sep 16, 2005) and I was wondering if any of it is still accurate. In particular, do you still think: “Flash memory will NOT replace hard drives in computers. Flash memory only has a life of a couple million write cycles. While this is plenty for an MP3 player or digital camera which doesn’t access flash memory constantly, flash ram as a hard drive replacement would die a quick and painful death and your laptop would be a very expensive paperweight in under 6 months. Even if you moved the swap partition into regular RAM, the flash drive would still rack up reads and writes quickly enough that it would hit its failure limit in a little over a year. How would you like to turn on your 1 year old Powerbook only to find that it not only doesn’t boot, but all your data has died a painful and unrecoverable death? So… don’t expect hard drives to go away anytime soon. Does that mean we’ll never see a lower power solid state replacement for the hard drive? No… it will happen eventually. There are a few promising technologies in development, but it will be years and years before we see them in an Apple computer (or Dell or IBM or....) “? I am trying to decide if I should wait until Apple switches to flash RAM to get an iPod. Will that ever happen? If so, how soon do you think?
    RChesak had this to say on Oct 05, 2007 Posts: 3
    AAM: Three's a Crowd
  • October 2007- How much of this has changed? Phil Steen: do you still think "Flash memory will NOT replace hard drives in computers. Flash memory only has a life of a couple million write cycles. While this is plenty for an MP3 player or digital camera which doesn’t access flash memory constantly, flash ram as a hard drive replacement would die a quick and painful death and your laptop would be a very expensive paperweight in under 6 months. Even if you moved the swap partition into regular RAM, the flash drive would still rack up reads and writes quickly enough that it would hit its failure limit in a little over a year. How would you like to turn on your 1 year old Powerbook only to find that it not only doesn’t boot, but all your data has died a painful and unrecoverable death? So… don’t expect hard drives to go away anytime soon. Does that mean we’ll never see a lower power solid state replacement for the hard drive? No… it will happen eventually. There are a few promising technologies in development, but it will be years and years before we see them in an Apple computer (or Dell or IBM or....) "? I am trying to decide if I should wait until Apple switches to flash RAM to get an iPod. Will that ever happen? If so, how soon do you think?
    RChesak had this to say on Oct 05, 2007 Posts: 3
    Flash Based Laptops, Sooner Than You Think