[News] Kickflash OS4: Final product specifications | ANN.lu |
Posted on 18-Jun-2003 00:39 GMT by Jens Schönfeld | 25 comments View flat View list |
Kickflash OS4 by individual Computers has been revised. It has 1MB flash now, and can be expanded to 1GB if necessary.
Due to the high demand, Kickflash OS4, which has been announced on June 2nd, has been revised. The base version now has 1MB of flash memory, and can be expanded to 1GB on an expansion port. Transfer rates can be compared to normal harddrives, but the common access times of mechanical mass-storage media practically don't exist on flash memory: On random access, so-called solid-state memory is about tenthousand times faster than common harddrives.
Kickflash OS4 is a Zorro-card that's compatible with all Zorro-2 and Zorro-3 systems. The new base price for the board is 34,90 EUR. Prices for expansions are not yet available.
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Comment 1 | reflect | | 18-Jun-2003 00:05 GMT |
Comment 2 | Atheist2 | | 18-Jun-2003 00:09 GMT |
Comment 3 | Atheist2 | | 18-Jun-2003 00:15 GMT |
Comment 4 | hooligan/dcs | Registered user | 18-Jun-2003 01:22 GMT |
Comment 5 | CodeSmith | | 18-Jun-2003 05:18 GMT |
Comment 6 | greenboy | Registered user | 18-Jun-2003 05:24 GMT |
Comment 7 | hooligan/dcs | Registered user | 18-Jun-2003 06:14 GMT |
Comment 8 | Ben | | 18-Jun-2003 07:36 GMT |
Comment 9 | takemehomegrandma | Registered user | 18-Jun-2003 08:22 GMT |
Comment 10 | takemehomegrandma | Registered user | 18-Jun-2003 08:24 GMT |
Comment 11 | Anonymous | | 18-Jun-2003 11:03 GMT |
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Kickflash OS4: Final product specifications : Comment 12 of 25 | ANN.lu |
Posted by MarkTime on 18-Jun-2003 11:18 GMT | In reply to Comment 9 (takemehomegrandma): CF cards are most definately far slower than hard drives.
The point would be in a server environment to have no moving parts, low power
requirements. (small, reliable, low power...for nearly static servers like routing tables, etc.)
In this case, there probably is no point at all, except some people have the
mistaken idea, that its faster cause its memory......uhmmm except read the
spec's, most CF cards max out at 4.0mb/s and the nextgen CF 2.0 spec will get them up to 16.0mb/s but that is still slower than a modern hard drive.
Also they are far more expensive than a modern hard drive. I've been trying
to battle the misinformation about CF cards on amiga.org for a while now.
People only need to call the manufactures to get the specs. |
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