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[News] Kickflash OS4: Final product specificationsANN.lu
Posted on 18-Jun-2003 00:39 GMT by Jens Schönfeld25 comments
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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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Kickflash OS4: Final product specifications : Comment 16 of 25ANN.lu
Posted by MarkTime on 18-Jun-2003 12:30 GMT
In reply to Comment 15 (Joe "Floid" Kanowitz):
oh yes, I read the anectdotal evidence.
it should be laughed at.

The person, well meaning yes...had a horrible slow old scsi configuration
not even getting 1.0mb/sec

so his CF solution was zippier. Great. I doubt he is alone in having
underperforming hdd access on an older Amiga...technology has moved ahead
and a lot of people have slow setups.

But the solution, is a faster modern IDE hdd, and if possible, a new controller (obviously not available to everyone).
The CF solution was only better, in that anything would be better than
what he had before.

But a modern 7200rpm/2mb cache IDE hard drive (bought a 30Gig version for $30 after rebates just last week)...would have blown away the performance of the CF card.

Only on seek times for very tiny files, would the CF be better.

Hence a Kickflash product with 1mb.....in this limited application, they might have something.

using it to load an OS, though, is not faster, not applicable.
It's only a good idea if you need low power limited space...not if you have space for a hard drive, or the power to run a hard drive.
in otherwords, people do the CF thing in certain types of server rooms.

but its not applicable here, and I can tell you, from just having bought
a fast hdd and putting it in a towerized A1200...I don't have any noticeable
wait for loading workbench..its mere seconds.

c'mon people, CF tranfer rates are in the 4.0mb/s range...that should tell you something...ancient, slow...terrible....geez
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