I was reading this article on wiki about Flash Memory and had a question about the two types of memory - NAND gate and NOR gate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Memory
It says that the NAND Flash like smartmedia cards uses a sequential access I/O interface. I must not know exactly how sequential access works because I always thought of it in the "tape drive" example kind of way. Meaning to get to one part of data you had to go through all the data before it.
Can someone give me a clear example of how I can see this in real life? Are computers just so fast now days that you dont really see a difference in seek times etc? When i look at say digital photos on my smartmedia card, I can point to a specific file and delete it.... how is this not random access.
I must be confused, thanks for any input.