On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 4:30 PM, James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > Make that *much* larger for *less* money... Mark _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
