You are minority - deal with it [LWN.net]

You are minority - deal with it

Posted Oct 7, 2008 18:21 UTC (Tue) by oak (guest, #2786)
In reply to: You are minority - deal with it by khim
Parent article: Stallman vs. Clouds (Linux Journal)

> Roughly half of them do and for every computer owner owner there are two
owners of mobile phones. So less then 20% of users who need to keep photos
somewhere can use laptop for that.

You can use memory cards (which also have flash chips inside them like
flash drives have) with phones. The sizes of memory cards coming with the
phones are ridiculously small (like the ones coming with digital cameras),
but one can cheaply buy much larger ones.

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Memory cards are not the answer

Posted Oct 8, 2008 7:33 UTC (Wed) by khim (guest, #9252) [Link]

They are SUPERunreliable. An the problem is not the wear-down of flash. The problem is size: they are small so it's easy to lose them. Flash cards are good for transfer of data, but not so good for backups. Thus flash cards are not the answer.