[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 |
Comment 12 | MarkTime | | 18-Jun-2003 11:18 GMT |
Comment 13 | MarkTime | | 18-Jun-2003 11:19 GMT |
Comment 14 | Joe "Floid" Kanowitz | | 18-Jun-2003 11:25 GMT |
Comment 15 | Joe "Floid" Kanowitz | | 18-Jun-2003 11:34 GMT |
Comment 16 | MarkTime | | 18-Jun-2003 12:30 GMT |
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Kickflash OS4: Final product specifications : Comment 17 of 25 | ANN.lu |
Posted by CodeSmith on 18-Jun-2003 16:21 GMT | In reply to Comment 16 (MarkTime): CF cards are optimized for reading, now writing. A typical card can be written at a rate of about 2MB/s, but read at about 10MB/s. Remember also that the point of this thing is to keep your OS in, not as a general-purpose drive. Also, on a mechanical drive, the time the heads take to go from one track to another is about 100x the time it takes to read data, that alone makes CF much better as a place to keep your workbench in. CF cards are also immune to head crashes, so unless your amy gets hit by lightning you can always boot off CF.
So, I agree that you don't want to throw away yout 7200RPM wide-scsi and get a CF drive, but I think that keeping your OS in one is a very good idea. |
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