On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Brian Waite <linwoes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wednesday 03 December 2008 12:26:29 Mark wrote: >> ...by which you're admitting that no wear levelling algorithm is perfect... > > I agree with that. Also no spinning media is perfect either > From my experience, (only about 10 yrs, not an eternity) flash drives have a > higher life expectency than any spinning media I have used. I have had far > more hard drives die than FLASH devices. I have seen numbers to argue FLASH > life expectancy to be an order of magnitude better than spinning media. > > I am not taking into account dropping my thumbdrive every other day and > slamming books on SD cards. > > If I were to put a Flash drive beside a hard drive and do that same activity > to them (say a typical user type load of reads/writes). I expect that the hard > drive would die statistically more often. >> >> Let's go back to the original question: how reliable are flash memory >> cards when used for booting an OS? >> >> Answer: Probably "reliable enough", provided something else doesn't go >> wrong. Flash cards *do* sometimes fail, for varying reasons, and >> repeated writes aren't the only issue. > > I would answer: More reliable than your PC harddrive. We trust our OSes on > those why not on FLASH. > > Thanks > Brian > The luck I've had with hard drives in the last few years has made me *very* distrustful of them. I 'trust" them with my OSes because I have no choice, but I make sure I have all my data backed up to other media... Mark _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
