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Originally Posted by user743
maybe your right but the last statement you said isn't true a empty kindle is faster then one full with book's (even after indexing).
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Kindle uses a type of flash memory, not regular HD. Flash memory becomes slower after a lot of writes (updates) as the main storage unit, called block, needs to be totally erased (change bits back to 1) I see that as rare case on a Kindle, unless you add many, many books and hit almost 90% or more of Kindle's capacity , delete again, and re-add books. That action of adding, deleting, adding, deleting, kind of burn the cells and over the time, decreases performance of a flash storage.
So technically speaking, at least in terms of actual reading, an empty Kindle must be as fast as a non empty Kindle.
And this is true on most flash storage devices, unless you use an eMLC , which I don't think any consumer product uses anyway, including IPads, due higher cost.
Buy and read Nigel Poulton book, Data Storage Networking ;-) it's explained very well there. You can read it on your own Kindle, by the way.