Serious question on thumb drives (was Re: Maybe a deal on flash drives)

[Les]

On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 10:59 -0700, Brian Mury wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 08:42 -0700, Les wrote:
> > powered memory devices, and the flash has nothing to do with speed,
> > other than the fact that it does have the capability of being erased in
> > a mass method or flashed to zero.  
>                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Flashed (erased) to one, written to zero.
> 
> 
Depends on the coding and construction of the device.  Physically the
cells currently go to a one.

Regards,
Les H