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To: Joe NYC who wrote (31368)3/30/1999 3:54:00 AM
From: Craig Freeman  Read Replies (1) of 33344
 
Jozef, I hold some SanDisk shares so I try to keep up on flash. Word on the street confirms Kash's statement that $1/MB is the year-end target. But there are several problems with using flash in PCs:

1) Limited life -- after so many reads and writes it wears out. It may be tens or hundreds of thousands of times but it is definitely limited.

2) Flash is very slow in computer terms. Transfer rates in the sub-MBS range are typical. There are exceptions but not at $1/MB target price.

If MiniCD and MicroDrive technology get cheap enough, they might be the ultimate answer for the "appliance" world. The ability to upload a "personality" from a $2 MiniCD to RAM at power-on is hard to beat. IMHO, hard drives will continue to be be cheaper than silicon for many years to come.

Craig
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