[rollei_list] Re: Storage Media [OT]
- From: "Jeff Kelley" <jlkphoto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 10:58:44 -0700
Roger, USB flash drives are NOT maganetic media. They are semi-conductor
devices. Each memory cell in a flash drive is actually a type of
transistor.
These types of devices are not reliable archival media either. Eventually a
bit or a byte of date stored can drift from its original state and as with
other digital storage, becomes unreadable.
Also, the devices can only withstand so many read/write cycles before they
wear out. Depending on the type device, that rating may vary from a few
thousand to a million reads or writes....
Jeff
On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Roger Wiser <rwiser@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> USB flash drives for storage seems to be prevalent. I would suppose their
> longevity is the same as other magnetic media?
>
> R
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rei Shinozuka" <shino@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2008 8:13 PM
> Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Storage Media [OT]
>
>
> i rememher the story, but as i recalled it , it appeared to
> > be a confusing violent movie, and at the end, it had a closeup
> > of a girl's face with a tear in it, and over the titles said
> > "walt disney"
> >
> > it's been a while.
> >
> > -rei
> >
> > On May03 18:19, Marc James Small wrote:
> >
> > > At 05:23 PM 5/3/2008, Rei Shinozuka wrote:
> > > >i bet of all digital media, cards and paper tape will outlive
> > > magetic
> > > tape,
> > > >floppy disks, maybe even some optical disks. when visitors come ot
> > > our
> > > >planet in 1,000,000 years, they'll be reverse-engineering COBOL code
> > > to
> > > >figure out what earthlings were about...
> > > >
> > > >-rei
> > >
> > > The recently late Sir Arthur Clarke wrote a short
> > > story in the early 1960's in which the Venusians
> > > come to Earth some thousands of years in the
> > > future. Mankind is dead but they find
> > > artifacts. The only thing they can decipher is a
> > > strip of movie film and they are baffled by the
> > > sight of Donald Duck throwing a temper tantrum.
> > >
> > > Marc
> > >
> > >
> > > msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!
> > >
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