John Gilmore wrote: > Swapping to the soldered-in NAND chips is a very bad idea. It will > tend to wear them out rapidly. Even if you use load-leveling software > (e.g. swapping to a file in a jfffs2 filesystem), the problem is that > if you do start wearing out serious numbers of flash blocks, the > laptop becomes toast; it requires a soldering iron and spare chips to > fix it. >
Well, maybe it's not as bad as all that. When the NAND wears out, then you can buy the SD card, thus deferring that purchase and taking advantage of Moore's law in the interim. Note that I'm not advocating in favor of soldered NAND - in fact I've been one of the leading proponents of migrating to an SD-based storage solution. I'm just pointing out that, if you're willing to buy an SD card now (which is necessary for the SD-based swap solution), then you are probably willing to buy one later. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
