New "EEE" super-portable laptop $199

[Jorge Delacruz]

The cheap consumer stuff at Fry's now comes with a
lifetime warranty.

Also, I use the cheap limited warranty compactflash in
my firewalls and they are still in service, almost 2
years later.  I think we can assume the flash is
written to several million times in a year, so the
quality of the flash seems to be much better than it
was.

Funny thing - I built a firewall using a hard drive a
year ago, and it already has filesystem errors.  No CF
box I built has failed yet.

JD


Alan Dayley wrote:
> keith smith wrote:
> 
>>I wonder how the flash-based data storage will last.
 It is my
>>understanding flash-based data storage has a finite
life span and wonder
>>what that really means.
>>
>>Is it good for a year, two years, five years?  Can I
add a hard drive?
>>
>>It is an exceptional value and at $199 it is almost
worth getting just
>>to mess with.
> 
> 
> See my comments from more than a year ago:
> 
>
http://lists.plug.phoenix.az.us/lurker/message/20060504.231037.e6c110af.en.html
> 
> Much of what I said then still holds true.  However,
flash memory and
> flash controller technologies continue to improve
and progress at a
> rapid rate.  I think even a consumer grade flash
device should last more
> than a year these days, unless it is the cheap,
no-name stuff.
> 
> I would hope that Asus is using higher grade stuff
in this little
> computer since it is the sole boot and data storage
media.  There are
> also tweaks that can be made to the kernel and
system logging and other
> things to drastically minimize the number and
frequency of small writes
> to the media.  They could also be using a file
system that is tailored
> to flash media.  Combining all of these factors, the
flash media could
> last many years.
> 
> I'd like to see a tear-down article with pictures
for one of these
> little computers.  That would be fun.
> 
> Alan
> 
> 
> 
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