On the flash wearing out issue, its not really that bad. There are different types of flash, some can go to over 100,000 writes.
The number of writes is to a specific address, not to the chip as a whole, thus most "flash disks" have an internal algorithm that spreads the writes around so the same physical locations are not being constantly written to. Someone did a calculation that if you use one of the flash types that will withstand a lot of writes and use the algorithm, assuming loading a new CD worth of data the second the old one is finished playing, you have over 200 years of life in the flash. Given the way audiphiles like to change out gear, I don't think its an issue. Nobody has yet brought up my favorite piece of info from the web site, DLLs. They say it unloads all the DLLs every clock cycle. Huh? They don't say what clock, even if its the 44.1KHz clock thats got to be a pretty fast procesor to find and unload all the DLLs 44 thousand times a second! And then I presume it has to load them back in whenever any io takes place, thats one heck of a lot of overhead going on. I can't possibly belive its ACTALLY unloading all the DLLs that often, that doesn't even make any sense. If not then I have no idea what the guy is talking about with regards to DLLs, the ramblings on that just don't make any sense at all. John S. -- JohnSwenson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31595 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
