Benefits of using a USB Flash Drive as a HDD?

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Hello.

What are the benefits of using a USB flash drive as a HDD, besides portability?
I do think that USB flash drives are also very economical, and surprisingly more reliable than current SATA, IDE, and SCSI hard drives (correct me if I'm wrong).

Can USB 2.0 technology read and transfer data faster than a typical HDD can read and write? I'd really like to compare a USB flash drive to a modern 7200rpm and 10k rpm hard drive. Also, I'd like to know about cache in comparison as well.

Help and thoughts appreciated. :)
 
1: If you mean for other than storage of simple programs and files (not windows) there aren't any, because small programs and files are all they're meant for. The read/write speed is quite poor compared to a standard HDD.
2: No. they aren't. Nothing beats a SATA drive at the moment.
3:There is no way in hell a USB 2.0 flashdrive will read and write data faster than a 7200 RPM SATA drive.
 
Besides being silent, flash drives have no advantages over a mechanical hard drive.

SSD's, on the other hand, is gaining ground on mechanical hard drives. I believe the newest Intel SSDs can compete, and dominate any 7200rpm and 10k drives.
 
voyagerfan99 said:
1: If you mean for other than storage of simple programs and files (not windows) there aren't any, because small programs and files are all they're meant for. The read/write speed is quite poor compared to a standard HDD.
2: No. they aren't. Nothing beats a SATA drive at the moment.
3:There is no way in hell a USB 2.0 flashdrive will read and write data faster than a 7200 RPM SATA drive.
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I have seen USB drives that transfer 300mbps+...how can we compare to this to rpm etc?

Also, what's an SSD?
 
diduknowthat said:
SSD's, on the other hand, is gaining ground on mechanical hard drives. I believe the newest Intel SSDs can compete, and dominate any 7200rpm and 10k drives.
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Sadly SSD are only theoretically faster then current drives.
Fact is the OS and the applications need to be tweaked for the SSD drive so until that happens SSD is a poor investment and performance is crippled.

Atm SSD are more of a fluff drive then a practical one. Id rather just RAID 0 2x80GB drives and use a 500GB storage drive ^-^

Cheaper and more reliable.
 
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look at at this way

1.Flash drives have no moving part and all the the ones ive owned are robust as anything even put it thru the was a few times and it still goes
2.correct me if im wrong but
NEW IDE SPEEDS maximum transfer speed of 100 megabytes per second
SATA 300 has a data transfer rate of 300 MB/sec
USB 60MB/s) the USB 2.0 Hi-Speed

it would be cool to have a portable OS thou i have Ubuntu on a 4GB Flash and loving it
 
Twist86 said:
Sadly SSD are only theoretically faster then current drives.
Fact is the OS and the applications need to be tweaked for the SSD drive so until that happens SSD is a poor investment and performance is crippled.

Atm SSD are more of a fluff drive then a practical one. Id rather just RAID 0 2x80GB drives and use a 500GB storage drive ^-^

Cheaper and more reliable.
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Regular HDD are cheaper than SSDs but not more reliable. MLC SSDs have had thier problems,except for the Intel and Samsung, but SLC drives flat out beat standard drives every time.
 
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