How come USB sticks haven't replaced the old VHS tapes? I've been having a dvd player for the last 5 years or so and I miss tapping the stuff that yust play's on TV. I get it that you can't burn the same cd over and over again, but why don't they make a dvd player that's able to record on a USB stick they are relativly cheap they can hold hours of movies and you can delete stuff/rewrite stuff almost indefenitly. Tv's themself can have harddrives these day's but often their memory is quit small (if you consider taping like 50 movies) and it's difficult to exchange it with friends.
There are hard drive recorders, they work practically the same as your USB stick idea. I'm sure you can transfer a movie from the hard drive onto a USB stick if you wanted.
Except it's easier to connect, carry, rent, transfer, etc.. a USB stick then it is to do those things with hard drives. Orcot makes a good point. I think the capacity & speed of flash memory is getting to the point where it would be feasible to replace hard drives -- (Hard drives have been around along time and great advancements have been made -- they are still, by far, the most reliable & economical storage devices)
USB sticks are already capable of carrying multiple movies at DVD rip quality. Moving parts are a liability, in 5 years or so everything will use flash memory.
I sort of doubt that "everything" statement. Meg for meg, hardrives will always be MUCH cheaper and better for long-term storage too.
I think the price will come down per meg eventually. I can't wait until there's no such thing as separate ram chips. You just have one big, fast-as-ram, solid state drive for everything.
No doubt it will, Mac, that's the way all electronics go.Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! However, drive technology is still improving too, and I believe it will always be cheaper per Gig. But I'm unsure about the speed involved - as in using it to replace RAM - because all flash memory is currently connected through USB and I've never seen the speed listed for "inside" the flash drives themselves. For some reason, I suspect it isn't nearly as fast as modern RAM, though.
Unlikely. The two types of memory storage are different for very different reasons. RAM is intentionally volatile because of the needs of hyper-fast information swap-out and requires little or no effort by the CPU to "wipe" a circuit clear of information. Flash memory, on the other hand, requires significant (by comparison) interaction by the processor to erase and store information. The net result of all this is also evident in the fact that Flash Memory is exponentially slower than RAM in how the circuits work. The mechanical structure of Flash Memory is significantly different in order to allow it to keep and store information over long periods of time. The opposite is true of RAM. While I get your point and do believe that we're going to see a hybrid of the two within a decade, I don't think that the two concepts can easily be combined. Just look at your brain, memories there are stored in "short term" and "long term" areas as well. The arrangement just works! And the storage capacity of a Blue-Ray is believed to approach a TB as well. For long term PERMANENT information storage, physical media will always have a place. Though, I do subscribe to the notion that most computers will go solid-state within a decade.
Reminds me of my search for a ficticious 40 GB flash drive with USB and Firewire I saw on a TV show, would be perfect for this sorta thing.
I want to make a VHS-to-USB adapter... I want to make a VHS-to-USB adapter... Shove the VHS adapter into the slot with a wire hanging out the front... plug it into any serial bus and boom! Recording RAW VHS data onto a USB or Firewire or anything!
