Originally Posted by SolarWind

Thats ridiculous. I've had a samsung 5 GB mp3 player (harddrive based) and I haven't had a single problem with it. In fact, I know many apple users who don't have a problem with their Ipods (ie my sister). Harddrives aren't that bad - they have slower access times then say.. a solid state drive.

However your 1 GB solid state drive's flash cells wear out after use (1,000,000 read/writes or so). Some newer Flash Drives (or MP3 players that are SSD) have algorithms that run timers which will spread out the data to sectors that aren't used in order to spread out the wear across the entire bank.I still think that clunky harddrives are much more trustworthy than a SSD whose cells wear out after use.

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SDRAM banks are another form of Solid state drives, however they are more volatile and need a battery backup in case the power goes out. Once the battery expires, all your data is lost.