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Gizmag reports that Samsung is expected to be the first company to offer for sale a new type of memory card, Universal Flash Storage. The new cards, which follow a JEDEC standard, have the same size and shape as microSD cards but are electrically incompatible with them.
Samsung claims a "sequential read speed of 530 megabytes per second (MB/s)" and, for the 256 GB card (the largest capacity), a "170 MB/s sequential write speed" and "35,000 random IOPS." Gizmag likened the speeds to those obtainable with SSDs. Cards with capacities as small as 32 GB will be offered.
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Can anyone remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?
(Score: 4, Interesting) by jmorris on Friday July 08 2016, @05:14AM
Actually.... Android has started offering the option to put ext[34] on your card so you can use it for more than a media dumping ground. The logo program and general expectations will pretty much require cards come formatted with exFAT and most devices will probably end up supporting it as the default so as to interoperate with Windows. But the days of Microsoft's dominance are ending, if Google mandated some new filesystem as the default for removable cards you can bet it would be the new standard. Especially if they made free drivers for Windows and Mac easily obtained, it would be game over.
The problem is for all the bitching there is no viable replacement for fat. The ext[34] file systems are not really suitable for removable media. You can mitigate the security hole of suid and device files on a removable ext filesystem but you can't remap the uid/gids so removable media is always intimately tied to the one system that created it. All of the *NIX fileystems tend to have this problem since it is an inherent property of the OS.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday July 08 2016, @05:39AM
So what?
chmod -R a+rw /mount/point
is it that hard type?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 08 2016, @02:32PM
Remember to unchmod it somehow since I want my memory stick back exactly as it were.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday July 09 2016, @02:50AM
Then you won't be able to use the removable media for transfer (this includes archival).
Even more, you won;t be able to use it for long term backup purposes - at least not longer than the life of your user account that created the files.
Look, the problem is not with UNIX, but inherently to the "FS for active use and access control enabled" vs "FS for transfer".
If you want to have both in the same time, the price to pay is a "never expiring and never repeated User Ides" (yes, you can have many, but all related to you and to you only for the entire life). You sure you want this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford