Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 16:30:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Marc Nicholas <marc@hippocampus.net> To: Timothy J Luoma <luomat+FreeBSD@luomat.peak.org> Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What are "flash drives"? (was Re: I'm back.) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980626162918.22087J-100000@neuron.hippocampus.net> In-Reply-To: <199806261807.OAA09409@luomat.peak.org>
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On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Timothy J Luoma wrote: > Sorry for my ignorance, but what is a flash drive? A storage device that uses flash memory chips instead of spinning magnetic media. Flash chips "retain" data even without power. Modern flash drives support sophisticated error correection algorithms to compensate for "dead" flash cells which occur. Check out http://www.m-sys.com. -marc -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Hippocampus OSD, Inc. "Industrial Strength Internet Solutions" vox://416.979.9000 fax://416.979.8223 http://www.hippocampus.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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