what's the diff between flash memory and hard drive memory?

Originally posted by ottesen07:

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what's the diff between flash memory and hard drive memory?

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flash memory is lighter and doesn't have any moving parts so if it falls it is less likely to break
a hard drive is heavier and makes the product bigger with moving parts more likely to break
and flash memory is better expecially if u run or move a lot while u listen to music since it doesn't have any moving parts

Should I buy this or the new psp?

thats not the only advantage

a hd drains all your battery away every time its working

flash memory gives you way more battery, if you dont believe it ask it to anyone having a moded psp what takes longer to drain the battery playing a game from the umd or from their memorystick?

new PSP for me :P i love the whole multimedia and now its gonna be slimmer with longer batter life. IMO XD

Originally posted by 21Q:

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Should I buy this or the new psp?

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Well that's an odd question... the PSP is a handheld gaming system and the Ipod is an MP4 player, with maybe pac-man.

8GB on a PSP anyways is $300.00.

Originally posted by Gradical:

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thats not the only advantage

a hd drains all your battery away every time its working

flash memory gives you way more battery, if you dont believe it ask it to anyone having a moded psp what takes longer to drain the battery playing a game from the umd or from their memorystick?

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i have a modded psp actually, and i do run ISO's

I would imagine there is a cost advantage to Apple, as prior posts have highlighted flash is solid state,no moving parts, so the unit cost during manufacture may be cheaper for Apple. In addition there may be a cost saving to Apple across the product lifetime, as flash memory is more reliable (my USB key has been through the washing machine twice now) Apple could be foreseeing a reduction in warranty claims (not that they handled them particularly well anyway). We will see if savings are passed to consumers or pocketed by Apple.

Oh... I just realized... My iPod Video is 27.somethin'GBs, and that's probably 15.6GBs. If I am already needing more space(3-6gbs left, thanks to The Godfather trio), that new iPod is useless to me.

Hmmm i didn't know these facts about flash memory, again apple is being the innovator, i may buy one of these just for the battery life ^_^

I would rather have a flash based iPod that the hdd based one I have now, just because of the moving parts, battery life, etc. Call me biased, but I've had Rios, Creatives, etc. in the past and there's no way I would take one of their 16gb models over ANY iPod. (Well, maybe the shuffle :-) )

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Originally posted by Gradical:

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thats not the only advantage

a hd drains all your battery away every time its working

flash memory gives you way more battery, if you dont believe it ask it to anyone having a moded psp what takes longer to drain the battery playing a game from the umd or from their memorystick?

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i have a modded psp actually, and i do run ISO's

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Be careful...."they" are watching....:-P

Originally posted by mgoat:

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I would imagine there is a cost advantage to Apple, as prior posts have highlighted flash is solid state,no moving parts, so the unit cost during manufacture may be cheaper for Apple. In addition there may be a cost saving to Apple across the product lifetime, as flash memory is more reliable (my USB key has been through the washing machine twice now) Apple could be foreseeing a reduction in warranty claims (not that they handled them particularly well anyway). We will see if savings are passed to consumers or pocketed by Apple.

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Actually, the per-gigabyte cost is higher for flash. This is why mechanical hard drives are used on computers as well as on high-capacity iPods. (The smallest-cheapest flash chips are cheaper than than the smallest-capacity hard drives, but they also hold much less data.)

flash doesnt skip when shaking.

HD does skip if u shake the piece.

I was thinking of getting my lil sis a multimedia player and this may just be the ticket.