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Subject: RE: Flash disks and FFS layout heuristics
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:> -----Original Message-----
:> From: Matthew Dillon [mailto:dillon@apollo.backplane.com]=20
:> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 3:20 PM
:>=20
:> For flash storage systems competitive with hard drive storage,=20
:
:In embedded systems, it's RAM that flash storage competes with, not hard
:
:drive storage.
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:SSD is a completely different engineering problem.

    You know, I think I've asked this already and you don't have to answer
    it if you don't want to, but exactly how large a flash device are you
    working with in your embedded project(s)?

					-Matt