Article: AMD's Mobile Strategy
By: Wes Felter (wesley.delete@this.felter.org), December 20, 2011 4:53 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
Seni (seniike@hotmail.com) on 12/20/11 wrote:
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>-Individual flash chips are not fast, so you can't use just one. It takes four
>to eight of them just to match the sequential write speed of a conventional hard drive.
In theory this is being fixed by ONFI 3.x and the like; one or two chips should at least match a hard disk. But since that's considered high-end flash, maybe it wouldn't be cheaper.
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>-Individual flash chips are not fast, so you can't use just one. It takes four
>to eight of them just to match the sequential write speed of a conventional hard drive.
In theory this is being fixed by ONFI 3.x and the like; one or two chips should at least match a hard disk. But since that's considered high-end flash, maybe it wouldn't be cheaper.