On Monday 01 December 2008 23:35:24 Sirio Negri wrote: > Hi all! I found some days ago a few articles about the limited life of > flash memory, specially for usb pendrive. The problem seems to be the > limited times you can write on it. Does it exist also for rs-mmc? > I know that the limit is very high (around 10 million of times) and it's > not a big problem for a normal user. But if you install an OS on it, > like on my Nokia 770, I think that the use of the memory card is bigger > and, if there is that problem, its life is shorter. > Thanks all for any info on it. > Sirio Negri iirc, the math goes something like this: take the space of the card, divide by write speed, thats how long it will take (in seconds) to do a write of the whole card. a 4GB card at 2MB pr second will take about half an hour to do a full write... now, if the card has a write limit of 10 million, that means it will take about 5 million hours... thats about 580 years of continual writing... yes, there are some cheap chips out there with poor wear leveling (meaning that one can burn out a single sector by repeatedly writing to it), but i suspect no name brand card will be that poorly made. _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
