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flash memory is the best, They are like indestructible.
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mayank1200
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wt do u mean by that?
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yeah, only thing is that they start failing after like 100,000 cycles
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I've read the same too, but i wonder whether its still relevant now a days.
What he means here is that each sector (if u can call it such) on a flash card is only good upto 100,000 writes. So imagine something like a windows paging file that would be constantly be changing meaning that storage life of such a device would be considerably shorter in comparison to say a regular HD.
yeah, only thing is that they start failing after like 100,000 cycles
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I've read the same too, but i wonder whether its still relevant now a days.
What he means here is that each sector (if u can call it such) on a flash card is only good upto 100,000 writes. So imagine something like a windows paging file that would be constantly be changing meaning that storage life of such a device would be considerably shorter in comparison to say a regular HD.
Add one more zero...
Samsung/Toshiba flash memory chips gurranty 1M write operations per block.
a BBC article on flash memory reliability
They were dipped into cola, put through a washing machine, dunked in coffee, trampled by a skateboard, run over by a child's toy car and given to a six-year-old boy to destroy.
Perhaps surprisingly, all the cards survived these six tests.
Most of them did fail to get through two additional tests - being smashed by a sledgehammer and being nailed to a tree. [/b]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3939333.stm
Samsung/Toshiba flash memory chips gurranty 1M write operations per block.
a BBC article on flash memory reliability
They were dipped into cola, put through a washing machine, dunked in coffee, trampled by a skateboard, run over by a child's toy car and given to a six-year-old boy to destroy.
Perhaps surprisingly, all the cards survived these six tests.
Most of them did fail to get through two additional tests - being smashed by a sledgehammer and being nailed to a tree. [/b]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3939333.stm
Most of them did fail to get through two additional tests - being smashed by a sledgehammer and being nailed to a tree.[/color]
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did they really went to that extend too???? :blink: :lol:
n' since it says "most of them"..............ne ideas on which 1 did passed these tests too!!!
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did they really went to that extend too???? :blink: :lol:
n' since it says "most of them"..............ne ideas on which 1 did passed these tests too!!!
