Gph Clearing The Facts

[AireTamStorm]

NAND shouldn't be thought of as 'another place to stash stuff', its really a more 'precious' storage mechanism than other media, because it does, in fact, wear out.  you want to write to it as little as possible.  its not like 'flash-ram', which you can burn and read as much as you like, NAND will eventually fail.

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NAND is exactly like flash ram, because that is what it is. NAND is the very same stuff as inside your sd cards, and yes it will eventually wear out (but not for many, many years with average use) but so will your sd cards.

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ehhh.. Certain types wear out faster than others, like on PDAs the nonvolatile storage isn't really meant to be written to. There is flash memory thats designed to be written to over and over and stuff that is designed to be written to a few hundreds times. People, be smart, and use the SD card to store stuff. Even the least expensive ones are alot bigger than what NAND has to offer. Put your wear and tear on an accessory that can be replaced, rather than on the unit itself.

Edit: Random words removed

 

[nik166]

Besides, unless you patch firmware, DS isnt far off 20seconds boot with that crappy disclaimer,

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i just tried, i counted 6 seconds

 

[mattyrb]

3 seconds doing nothing, waiting for a character from the serial port

errrm i'll sound dopey but is it testing the serial port in this case?

 

[geniv]

no_skill:

You could always get a Gizmodo and enjoy its 60-second bootup time

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60 SECONDS! geeze. that's a hell of a long time. you can Gizmondo yourself during the the boot time.

 

[Jarska333]

no_skill:

You could always get a Gizmodo and enjoy its 60-second bootup time

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60 SECONDS! geeze. that's a hell of a long time. you can Gizmondo yourself during the the boot time.

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I can't, takes atleast 3 hours. B)

 

[Mr. Anderson]

Oh nice summary, thanks for getting that topic back on top, very interesting and it looks like the hardware faults are no real ones but more firmware problems.

SD 2GB problem will be fixed soon eh? I hope so...

 

[Titousensei]

Out of curiosity, as Ive never seen it mentioned.... no standby save state thing, but is there a powersave mode on the GP2x? Ie, leave it for 5mins and the backlight etc powers down like PSP does.

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Not yet ;-)