Bah, I hate flash storage. Limitations on the number of erase-write cycles bug me, as an engineer.
I remember that with a certain recent generation of Windows Mobile devices, performance dropped dramatically by somebody's stupid decision to use flash RAM. It was better for battery life, because it could power down and resupply the power without flushing RAM contents, but to make it last longer than a few months, they had to decrease performance by lots of jiggery pokery.
Of course, that doesn't mean much when talking about flash storage (other than RAM), but these limitations can come up after a few years of use.
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Bah, I hate flash storage. Limitations on the number of erase-write cycles bug me, as an engineer.
I remember that with a certain recent generation of Windows Mobile devices, performance dropped dramatically by somebody's stupid decision to use flash RAM. It was better for battery life, because it could power down and resupply the power without flushing RAM contents, but to make it last longer than a few months, they had to decrease performance by lots of jiggery pokery.
Of course, that doesn't mean much when talking about flash storage (other than RAM), but these limitations can come up after a few years of use.