Terry wrote:

On Sun, 06 Jun 2010 03:57:43 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:


The prices are starting to drop:

30 GB SATA 2 SS drive: $199

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4933684&Sku=O261-6228

4 GB 2.5" PATA/IDE SS drive: $49

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2552722&CatId=5301

What is the advantage of these drives over, say, a 32 GB jump drive at
$70 (this week at Office Depot)? Speed? If so, how great is that
advantage in practice?

The first one linked uses a combination of flash NAND memory along with a 64MB dynamic
memory cache. Your jump drive doesn't have a cache to improve write read/write times.

Wes
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