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However, flash disks are much more expensive than magnetic memory.

Instead of a hard drive, the computer uses a 16-megabyte flash disk, which was designed to provide inexpensive memory for network PC's.

Removable memory comes in the form of standard compact flash disks; a four-megabyte wafer costs about $100.

The Magnum platforms also enable sharing entertainment via optical disc, flash disk and networking inside the home.

Thumb drives, U.S.B. keys, flash disks - call them what you will, there hasn't been much to get excited about in ultraportable storage.

M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneer Ltd., Tel Aviv, 2.4 million ordinary shares.

The benefits are that flash disks are extremely fast, small and lightweight, require less battery power and are interchangeable in machines that have the right slots.

Some modern formatters wipe hard disks with a value of instead, sometimes also called zero-filling, whereas a value of is used on flash disks to reduce wear.

The new model also uses PCI Express IO technology, and added a compact flash disk slot for booting the operating system.

The new evidence consists of written documents, video files and digital material on a flash disk, and includes plans to be put into action if the alleged coup attempt were to fail.

In January of 2013 Oracle corporation announced their Exadata Smart Flash Cache feature which uses pcie flash cards rather than flash disks.

Through the use of Microsoft's Double Space data compression, the flash disk has an effective capacity of nearly 20 megabytes, and the hard disk swells to nearly 80 megabytes.

The built-in memory is a fairly limited 512-kilobyte flash disk, but the device is compatible with external hard drives and a range of peripherals, like printers, Internet phone headsets and digital cameras.

But he was in earnest, and when he had finished the formal paper he talked to them, his hands in his pockets, his spectacled face a flashing disk, like a plate set up on edge in the lamplight.

The shapes stood immobile, flashing disks, gigantic radiant stars and the six great spheres beneath their geometric super-Euclidean god or shrine or machine of interwoven threads of luminous force and metal - still motionless, still watching.

Since non-dirty pages in the page cache have identical copies in secondary storage (e.g. hard disk, Flash disk), discarding and re-using their space is much quicker than paging out application memory, and is often preferred.