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Technology Stocks : WDC/Sandisk Corporation
WDC 236.39-2.8%Jan 23 9:30 AM EST
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To: Starlight who wrote (13650)8/6/2000 4:16:28 PM
From: Art Bechhoefer  Read Replies (1) of 60323
 
What happens when the flash disk gets full? Do you transfer the files to a computer? Or if you have a camera with flash disk, do you transfer the photo images to an online storage facility? This latter procedure seems to be what Kodak is leaning toward. Thus, flash memory capacity, even in its highest resolution cameras, would need to be minimal if there were a convenient way to upload the images by wireless to an online site. If the flash memory contained in the MP3 player or the camera is seen as just a temporary facility to hold images before transfer to a computer at home or online, then, as you suggest, there might be less need for removable flash cards. As far as cameras go, I don't like an intermediate host facility. I like the flexibility of storing my images on removable cards and downloading periodically to more permanent storage. I can envision numerous instances where there would be no convenient online facility, and even if there was such a facility, there are probably some storage costs that the user would have to cover.

The only possible advantage I can see for embedded memory of limited capacity in a digital camera is possibly lower cost, giving the manufacturerer of the camera with embedded memory a slight advantage in lower cost. But that advantage is outweighed by the convenience and flexibility of removable flash memory.
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