[LINK] ASUS Eee PC, $499 in Myer for Christmas

[Scott Howard]

I haven't seen any performance stats for the Flash in the Eee, but for the
most part current generation SSD drives are generally faster than their HDD
equivalents - especially if you're talking about sub-notebooks, where
vendors are generally using small/slower hard disks (eg, 1.8" 4200RPM)

A quick search on Google finds no end of hits such as
http://www.ultramobilelife.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=607

For some of the Flash drives write performance generally does lag behind
HDD, although that gap is narrowing quickly.


  Scott.


On 12/19/07, David Lochrin <dlochrin at d2.net.au> wrote:
>
>    I forwarded some of the Link discussion re the ASUS Eee PC  to a
> friend, who comments as follows.
>
> "What's less well known is that the ASUS Eee has no hard disk, just a mess
> of flash RAM.  And as I've discovered backing up to a little USB 1 GB
> plug-in flash chip, flash memory is a LOT slower writing than to a hard
> disk.  No wonder it's a dog trying to run XP."
>
> David
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