[SOLVED] what does Flash Zune mean?

[georgexx316@hotmail.com]

I have heard people refer to Zune 4/8 GB as the flash Zune. Why is it called flash Zune, does it mean it can be used as a flash USB drive?

[stkr]

1. It cannot be used as a flash drive without being hacked first

2. It's called a flash Zune because it is a flash-based player. It stores data on a solid-state memory card versus using a traditional harddrive like the Zune 80/30. Flash drives run faster, use less power, and are much much smaller.

[Deiparous]

yeah, basically if you took a flash drive and replaced the hard drive in a z80 with it you'd have an oversized z4/8

[Darth Camel]

Originally Posted by stkr

1. It cannot be used as a flash drive without being hacked first

2. It's called a flash Zune because it is a flash-based player. It stores data on a solid-state memory card versus using a traditional harddrive like the Zune 80/30. Flash drives run faster, use less power, and are much much smaller.

Yep. This guy's got it.

[charmed61]

wait, faster? does that mean if u store too much on a hard drive your zune will slow down? cause sometimes i click on "videos" it takes like 3 seconds to load instead of instant open on my zune 80.

[Darth Camel]

Originally Posted by charmed61

wait, faster? does that mean if u store too much on a hard drive your zune will slow down? cause sometimes i click on "videos" it takes like 3 seconds to load instead of instant open on my zune 80.

"Faster" as in the transfer times are faster.

[stkr]

Originally Posted by charmed61

wait, faster? does that mean if u store too much on a hard drive your zune will slow down? cause sometimes i click on "videos" it takes like 3 seconds to load instead of instant open on my zune 80.

Harddrives will slow down the more you put on them, but it depends on more than that in most situations. In this case it would depend on how many files and how quickly the Zune can access the files. Or, basically, how much power it has in terms of RAM and/or processing. Flash or solid-state memory is much faster and efficient and has no moving parts. It's like a flash basically . It's really expensive once you get into the higher storages, though, wh*** is why there is no 80GB flash Zune 80. It's be so nice, though, and so thin.

[charmed61]

lol we're getting off topic and sorry, but i googled and found a 64 GIGABYTE flash drive!!! but it's way too expensive! $5000!!!!!!

http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/29/b...-pro-2-series/

[Deiparous]

If you wanna be technical, the speed of a harddrive doesn't change depending on content, it just has to load more info at a time because you have more videos so rather than having to look up and load 10 videos, it has to load 100.

But anyways, I think this is solved.