Brian J. Murrell wrote: > And how long will that flash card last with the log and vmail churn? > Flash devices have a limited number of writes you can do to a single > cell before it "wears out" and cannot be written to any more.
All modern flash cards (not flash chips, which are lower level) have built-in wear leveling. There is still an upper limit to what the card can handle, but keeping in mind the target market for this device (a small office with less than 50 users) it's not likely that the voicemail volume is going to be so extreme as to wear out the CF card. We do not ship the AA50 with Asterisk logs enabled to the CF card as far as I know, primarily for this reason. > So does one have to throw out the whole appliance when one wears out the > flash card? No. The files to repopulate the CF card are available to users who have active support subscriptions and they can replace the card. Users can also, of course, make a backup copy of the card on a new card when they receive the unit and have a ready-to-install replacement should any problems occur. -- Kevin P. Fleming Director of Software Technologies Digium, Inc. - "The Genuine Asterisk Experience" (TM) _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
