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Technology Stocks : WDC/Sandisk Corporation
WDC 162.40+2.9%Nov 17 3:59 PM EST
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To: Craig Freeman who wrote (7896)10/29/1999 10:15:00 PM
From: Gary Spiers  Read Replies (1) of 60323
 
Craig,

I think we have crossed communications somewhere.

However, I have to say that DRAM is volatile - anyway you cut it, remove the power and the information is gone. I know because I have a palmtop that uses DRAM for part of its storage (32MB to be precise) - the other 100+MBs is provided as Flash cards by our favourite company. Any how this last weekend I went tent camping in the mountains - overnight the temperature dropped sufficiently that the rechargable batteries in the palmtop failed and I lost all the contents of the DRAM (have backups) - that's my definition of volatile :-)

My comment about power consumption was in connection to the power consumption of flash (especially the write cycle) compared to DRAM as I believe the original question was if flash could be used instead of DRAM - not the other way around.

I might add that I have 2 HP laptops (OB300 and OB800) that use low power (ie more expensive) DRAM - they have true instant suspend - push the button and they are off - none of this suspend to disk junk. They can sustain this suspend to memory for long time periods - the longest I have used it is several months (for the OB300 which can also run on AA batteries btw).

GaryS
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