Yeah. This drive would be flash. Flash media doesn't need a voltage to retain data as opposed to the other kind of a solid state disk which is bascially a stick of RAM and a battery.
The downside to flash is that it has a limited number of writes before it loses it's charge. RAM wont, but you need constant power. Thus flash is in portable devices like the iPod and USB drives, while the other kind is used for RAM memory or a military device that is expected to be in service for a very long time and has the proper batterys/capacators to keep it going. Either way, they're both a shitton faster and stabler then mechinacial hard drives. No phyiscal moving parts to break or have to spin up. Some video houses, from what I know, use them in their workstations when they can fit the entire project plus the OS's two gigs in a 60gb space for system performance, and when they're done move them to a cheaper mechanical drive.
three reasons. the first being that I just like the 4g interface better then anything coming after it. the UI's "upgrade" is slower on the new ipods compared to the old ones, and the clickwheel is larger and the button in the middle is recessed as opposed to sticking out. but the important reasons are that flash memory takes far less battery power then a hard disk, blowing out of the water the battery life in all ipods avalable currently, and it gives me the capacaty of the newer ipods with the durability of solidstate electronics, as there are no moving parts to shatter.
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The downside to flash is that it has a limited number of writes before it loses it's charge. RAM wont, but you need constant power. Thus flash is in portable devices like the iPod and USB drives, while the other kind is used for RAM memory or a military device that is expected to be in service for a very long time and has the proper batterys/capacators to keep it going. Either way, they're both a shitton faster and stabler then mechinacial hard drives. No phyiscal moving parts to break or have to spin up. Some video houses, from what I know, use them in their workstations when they can fit the entire project plus the OS's two gigs in a 60gb space for system performance, and when they're done move them to a cheaper mechanical drive.
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