Paladin of the Pegasos
Posts: 1178 from 2003/3/13
From: Pinto, Madrid ...
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geit wrote:
Massive increase of the boot speed and application launch speed.
Of course, it's like a hard disk with amost zero seek time. Different thing is writing. Writing flash memory is very slow compared to reading, but again, it's very fast compared to a disk drive, of course. Better read a lot and write as less as possible: Perfect for storing programs, bad for documents.
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the entire system and all applications on flash used around 50% of the card
The benefit of using small operating system and applications!
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My harddrive is only used to store media data and other stuff
That's a very good choice. Computers should separate "important things", like programs and configurations, from user stuff, that is better kept in massive volumes.
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The best thing is there is no fragmentation, so if you update files there won't be any speed loss.
Indeed there's fragmentation. It's the same filesystem down there, only that, having almost zero seek time, fragmentation has very little effect.
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using a faster (more expensive) card will increase this amazing speed even more.
If the controller's software allows for it. What's more interesting, is that modern flash cards (the cards have certain abilities, I'm not talking about the controller) have clever ways of reusing cells, so they are picked as fresh as possible when writing. No more burning of the same cells again and again, which renderes them unusable after some thousands of operations.
And that's below the filesystem level, of course. Naturally, you can't predict in which exact cells your data will be written, but you normally never care for that.
