flash NAND has an unlimited amount of read cycles, it's limited write cycles (and price) that put regular platters above NAND in terms of popularity. either way, since NAND has less power usage and is more drop-resistant, mobile devices are 100% better off with NAND, and $2/GB memory instead of $10/GB like NAND is now.......that means that iPod touch is going to actually become affordable.
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shanoboy @ Dec 4th 2007 3:30PM
Isn't the life span of flash memory and solid state disks substantially less than that of the platter based hard drives?
I'd hate to invest $2 a gig on a hard drive that could literally wear out after a few good years of heavy use.
dave @ Dec 4th 2007 5:11PM
flash NAND has an unlimited amount of read cycles, it's limited write cycles (and price) that put regular platters above NAND in terms of popularity. either way, since NAND has less power usage and is more drop-resistant, mobile devices are 100% better off with NAND, and $2/GB memory instead of $10/GB like NAND is now.......that means that iPod touch is going to actually become affordable.