Re: Good (cheap) flash memory chips?




"Mike Matthews" <m1ke.m477hewz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I'm hoping to get into the 20GB range for the drive, something not
> currently offered in comercial drives. Stacking many smaller chips
will
> probably be cheaper thant trying to go with a few large ones, no? I'm
> hoping someone has already done a project like this and can point me
to
> the chip they used, as too much trial and error is budget prohibitive.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike

CF cards have some intelligence in them that writes over a new spot
instead of rewriting over the same spot every time, and thus 'wearing
out' or using up the write cycles. If you can do that with just the
basic chips, then go for it. I would use the CF cards, they're so much
simpler and cheaper.


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