[Novalug] best hard disk setup for home file server?

Bryan J. Smith b.j.smith at ieee.org
Fri Oct 16 12:35:45 EDT 2009


NAND EEPROM compared to magnetic disk, yes.
NAND EEPROM compared to DRAM, hell no (let alone SRAM).  ;)
NAND EEPROM has its latency issues as well, just far less than disk.


----- Original Message ----
From: James Ewing Cottrell 3rd <JECottrell3 at Comcast.NET>

Flash drives, on the other hand have exactly one cylinder and track, 
zero diameter, and rotate infinitely fast.



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