From owner-freebsd-small Fri Jun 26 13:31:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA24623 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 13:31:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from neuron.hippocampus.net (neuron.hippocampus.net [204.138.241.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA24493 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 13:30:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marc@hippocampus.net) Received: from localhost (marc@localhost) by neuron.hippocampus.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA22443; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 16:30:54 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 16:30:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Marc Nicholas To: Timothy J Luoma cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What are "flash drives"? (was Re: I'm back.) In-Reply-To: <199806261807.OAA09409@luomat.peak.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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