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Chuck T
USA
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Posts 678
15 Jun 2012 23:15
| I bought a new camera and I went to see what kind of memory it takes and it said it also takes SDXC memory. I went looking on Amazon and it came up as:
PNY Professional X 64 GB High Speed SDXC CL10 UHS-1 Rated Flash Memory (P-SDX64U1-30-GE)
It basically does 16 Hours of HD video at 35 mb/s.
EXTERNAL LINK At $64.22, it looks affordable but you probably need a license to sell a computer with it. There are faster SDXC cards and I know that you have been talking about compact flash cards or another format but should the Natami II be redesigned to accomodate extra memory and faster speeds?
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Chuck T
USA
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Posts 678
15 Jun 2012 23:30
| Also, could the lines to the floppy drive be used to bit bang other hardware like the SDXC card?
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Marcel Verdaasdonk
Netherlands
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Posts 3976
16 Jun 2012 10:33
| Chuck T wrote:
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Also, could the lines to the floppy drive be used to bit bang other hardware like the SDXC card?
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Not to bit bang but there is hardware on the Amiga market that uses the floppy interface to load from a SD card.
But keep in mind all speed gains are lost in this manner.Besides that only logic interface that could be used would be SPI because else we would look on a wild growth of standards people wish to see supported...
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Megol .
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Posts 675
16 Jun 2012 13:58
| Chuck T wrote:
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Also, could the lines to the floppy drive be used to bit bang other hardware like the SDXC card?
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Possibly in SPI mode. But why do that when the card already have HDD support? A SSD connected to the ATA port is faster and should be cheaper.
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Chuck T
USA
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Posts 678
16 Jun 2012 16:18
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Chuck T wrote:
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Also, could the lines to the floppy drive be used to bit bang other hardware like the SDXC card?
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Possibly in SPI mode. But why do that when the card already have HDD support? A SSD connected to the ATA port is faster and should be cheaper.
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I like having options. I rebuilt our PC after getting hit by a virus. The tech said it sounded like our hard drive was dieing so I ordered a new hard drive. There are a lot of reasons to have other options. Our other computer was a notebook and the hard drive died so we recycled it out because the notebook needed a new battery, the CD drive died and it was ten years old. I don't like having backups on only one device and the idea of a RAID like system is more appealing to me. The idea of being able to boot from CD or thumbdrive if one component is broken is also appealing. The idea of scanning a disk without booting from a disk is also helpful in getting rid of viruses and protecting memory. The idea of working off of one devices imposes limitations on the user and I don't believe in having limitations. The ideas of having enough storage anymore is fictional. We went from a 2 megapixel camera to a 16 megapixel camera. We went from a 3 gigabyte hard drive to 160 gigabyte hard drive. I remember when we got a 160 Gigabyte hard drive on sale and it was because they came out with 500 Gigabyte and 1 Terrabyte Hard drives which you need if you do video. Our Nikon L810 does video and has a 26 X zoom so the fact that HDMI video needs a 32 Gigabyte card to do approximately four hours of video means that we have to have storage solutions and it is difficult to lose memories because this isn't print media; these are memories. In other words, don't impose limitations on your equipment or your mind because you might need or want it someday.
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Marcel Verdaasdonk
Netherlands
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Posts 3976
16 Jun 2012 20:22
| Chuck I have roughly 17TB when talking about RAID I only know of two RAID configurations.
RAID 1 and RAID 1+0.And Chuck it is not as much about options as it is about redundancy what your talking about so yeah it is possible it is already on the market and yeah i have a sample. I have 500GB IDE disks i have them of lower up to 106Mb i think.(if i haven't thrown that one out yet.)
You can take one thing of me when i am gonna get a Natami I am gonna search every nook and cranny in the system searching for a optimal balanced solution. To be honest SD cards are not on my list of exchangeable media I since i already found a solution for it.
Besides that I found a raid controller that only requires PCI so i have a better solution. ;)
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Chuck T
USA
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Posts 678
16 Jun 2012 21:02
| I don't believe that computers should come with only one hard drive. When we got hit by a virus, Dell's tech support wanted $200 to help me unlock the hard drive.
I ordered an external case and a second hard drive. I switched drives and installed Windows on the second drive. When you can do something like this yourself, you don't have to pay tech support because then you can take control and read the dirty drive yourself without it booting.
I believe it is having options. It is like the computer that you have to plug into the PC to upload your files to the memory card. I believe in having more I/O so I can switch drives or switch operating systems. I don't believe in wiping a drive clean or keeping it empty because it might become full or dirty.
The problem is the way platters on hard drives work. The operating system and the files share the drive and when they fill up, they slow down because of seek time; The files you want are on the outside of the disk, the drive may be fragmented and the operating system is on an optimal part of the disk. I actually want to put the operating system on one hard drive and my personal files on a second hard drive to keep it fast. By the time you go from Window's first update to three or four years of updates, Microsoft has Windows running at a crawl.
Fragmentation does not matter so much on a solid state drive because it is only a memory address.
What I do like are the smaller SDXC cards with 64 gigabytes and these new solid state hard drives because there are no moving parts, they conserve energy and they are probably lighter than hard drives.
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Marcel Verdaasdonk
Netherlands
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Posts 3976
16 Jun 2012 21:42
| Chuck look up CF drives they are mechanical and electrical compatible to IDE in most cases this makes adapting them easier.
I do hope that Thomas split the CF port from the IDE interface or else I will have fun with that. ;)
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Chuck T
USA
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Posts 678
16 Jun 2012 21:52
| I will try.
I was watching a video on a navy destroyer. It had a tolkien ring running through the destroyer and there were a dozen or two computers spread out on the ship. Lets say the computer had 17 computers and 16 of them went down, that ship is going to keep fighting on the last computer. Redundancy is what you need. The reason why Norton and Mcafee is in business is because there isn't enough redundancy in computers for regular users to 'right' their computer. I don't care if I get hit with a virus because I can unplug a hard drive and install a hard drive with Windows Pre-installed and put the infected hard drive in a case and keep my data. I said goodbye to the tech guy.
I admire the Commodore 64. You could have up to four disk drives daisy chained and a seperate hard drive running. The latter drives had a dip switch to push to make it device 8 or 9. It didn't matter if you got stuck because you could turn it off and flip the switch.
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Wojtek P
Poland
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Posts 1597
23 Jun 2012 09:06
| Chuck T wrote:
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Also, could the lines to the floppy drive be used to bit bang other hardware like the SDXC card?
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SD type cards can be accessed at SPI mode. it's slow.Just use USB reader
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