Linear Flash

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Linear Flash can also be read and written to by laptops and desktops with PCMCIA slots, and is somewhat popular for sensitive data storage because the media is non-volatile and does not degrade over time. However, large-scale storage is impracatical using Linear Flash because of small card sizes (typically under 40 megabytes) and prohibitive costs; megabyte-for-megabyte, Linear Flash cards are often dozens of times more expensive than ATA cards.

Linear Flash cards begin to develop bad blocks after about 100,000 read/write s and thus are of dubious value on the second-hand market.

Linear Flash cards were also the primary method of data storage for Apple s PDAs.

Major manufacturers of Linear Flash cards are [http://www.pretec.com Pretec], [http://www.smartm.com Smart] and [http://www.magicram.com MagicRAM]. Intel, which championed the adoption of the Linear Flash format, also manufactured cards.