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Old 1st August, 2007, 03:31 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dsio
A Robson cache, is just a block of flash memory, generally of a very high speed variety, and about 1GB in size.
If, by high speed, you mean compared to the access time of a hard disk, then yes. If, by high speed, you mean compared to RAM, then NAND flash is orders of magnatude slower - 25 microseconds vs sub 35 ns.
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