kenneth marken wrote: > 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... > > And when that happens, you can probably replace it with a larger one for the same money. -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
