[clug] USB flash disks

Andrew Over andrew.over at cs.anu.edu.au
Wed Jan 28 22:34:16 GMT 2004


On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 12:35:48AM +1100, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:

> Thing is, the write speed is more important to me, as I write
> in the camera in the field, then read it at leisure at home.

Unless the technology improved markedly when I wasn't looking, you should
expect write speeds to flash to be substantially slower than read speeds
(particularly if the write involves an erase cycle...)

--Andrew



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