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To: Walter Morton who wrote (1499)	11/14/1998 5:54:00 PM
From: Walter Morton	Respond to of 18366

Message 6421262

To: Walter Morton who wrote (1499)	11/14/1998 6:03:00 PM
From: Savant	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18366

The drive has moving parts, and if you have ever dropped a running hard drive, the head does a death dance on the surface. Flash memory doesn't move and is more durable.

To: Walter Morton who wrote (1499)	11/14/1998 8:32:00 PM
From: Walter Morton	Respond to of 18366

<<Just after NCII solved this problem>> "One of the disadvantages of flash is that it's slower to write data to a flash memory chip than it is to a disk," said Bob Katzvie, an analyst at Disk/Trend, a market research group in Mountain View, California." _ I'm not sure that NCII has addressed the problem stated above: _ "MicroOS... limited only by the flash memory's write speed" Message 6385356 _ So, is moving parts and memory overkill the only defenses that the flash memory makers have?