On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 06:47:03 +1000, Adrian Levi wrote: > On 12/01/2008, David Brodbeck wrote: > > > > On Jan 11, 2008, at 11:21 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > How do seek and rotational delays affect Flash RAM? > > > > If you spin around in a circle fast enough while holding the flash > > card, all the bits slide to the outside edge where they're harder to > > reach. ;) > > Yes, but if you read from the outside edge then your bit density is > greater and therefore your theoretical maximum transfer rate is > higher, providing that the bits don't all fly around when you stop > spinning. This benefit would outweigh the harder to reach bits. :-)
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