[coyotos-dev] Couple of potential-someday-user questions

[Valerio Bellizzomi]

On 09/02/2005, at 9.51, Peter Busser wrote:

>Hi!
>
>> Now it is not the norm yet to have NVRAM in PCs .  Flash disks are not a
>> standard component yet, but in the future, maybe..
>
>You can only write a limited number of times to a flash memory. And I
>think 
>writing to flash memory is not really fast either.

Even on an hard disk you can write a limited number of times. The limit is
dictated by two factors:

- hdu life-time
- hdu performance


There are many types of flash memory, we are not talking about the same
type.


val