>>Hi All,
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>>I'm looking at this USB flash memory card (apparently the thinnest in the world). On their spec sheet they state a read speed of 8MB/s over USB 2. How would that compare with an average PC drive these days?
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>>http://www.freecom.com/ecproduct_detail.asp?ID=2644&CatID=8080&sCatID=80804&ssCatID=80804
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>Serial ATA II (3.0Gbps)

Jordan, is that an average sort of 5500rpm basic drive? What I'm trying to get to is how would this perform if someone ran an average application off the flash drive i.e. an application that access' files of moderate size, reads a few hundred average records off it, does a bit of analysis, etc. Nothing extremely disk intensive.