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QUOTE(prathapml @ Jul 25 2006, 01:56 AM) [snapback]56659[/snapback]
2 GB pendrive (a newer & much faster model) comes for Rs.1300
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Wow, I used to think it would cost more then 2k. Wonder how on earth companies charge so much for MP3 players based on the same technology.
2 GB pendrive (a newer & much faster model) comes for Rs.1300
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Wow, I used to think it would cost more then 2k. Wonder how on earth companies charge so much for MP3 players based on the same technology.
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QUOTE(aniketvb @ Jul 26 2006, 12:50 AM) [snapback]56716[/snapback]
Dude...MP3 is patented, so the real companies like Transcend, Apple etc who license it pass on their costs....
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The economics are:
$2.5 per mp3 encoder with a yearly minimum of $15,000[/b]
http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/printthread.php?t=5399
Even that does not justify the costs.
Dude...MP3 is patented, so the real companies like Transcend, Apple etc who license it pass on their costs....
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The economics are:
$2.5 per mp3 encoder with a yearly minimum of $15,000[/b]
http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/printthread.php?t=5399
Even that does not justify the costs.
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QUOTE(max @ Aug 1 2006, 11:48 PM) [snapback]57255[/snapback]
yeah, only thing is that they start failing after like 100,000 cycles
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I've read the same too, but i wonder whether its still relevant now a days.
What he means here is that each sector (if u can call it such) on a flash card is only good upto 100,000 writes. So imagine something like a windows paging file that would be constantly be changing meaning that storage life of such a device would be considerably shorter in comparison to say a regular HD.
yeah, only thing is that they start failing after like 100,000 cycles
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I've read the same too, but i wonder whether its still relevant now a days.
What he means here is that each sector (if u can call it such) on a flash card is only good upto 100,000 writes. So imagine something like a windows paging file that would be constantly be changing meaning that storage life of such a device would be considerably shorter in comparison to say a regular HD.
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Samsung/Toshiba flash memory chips gurranty 1M write operations per block.
a BBC article on flash memory reliability
They were dipped into cola, put through a washing machine, dunked in coffee, trampled by a skateboard, run over by a child's toy car and given to a six-year-old boy to destroy.
Perhaps surprisingly, all the cards survived these six tests.
Most of them did fail to get through two additional tests - being smashed by a sledgehammer and being nailed to a tree. [/b]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3939333.stm
Samsung/Toshiba flash memory chips gurranty 1M write operations per block.
a BBC article on flash memory reliability
They were dipped into cola, put through a washing machine, dunked in coffee, trampled by a skateboard, run over by a child's toy car and given to a six-year-old boy to destroy.
Perhaps surprisingly, all the cards survived these six tests.
Most of them did fail to get through two additional tests - being smashed by a sledgehammer and being nailed to a tree. [/b]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3939333.stm