On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:51:33 +0100, chefren wrote: >On 3/28/08 1:20 AM, Rod Whitworth wrote: > >> The CF wearout meme needs to die. > >Specs, it's all about specs, it seems a fact to me that "standard" CF >cards, as used in camera's, often without any technical specification >other than "size", cannot be written as often as ordinary harddisks.
The Apacer cards I use are PhotoSteno III made for camera use and I cannot kill one. Maybe you can wear one out in several years but you will never have a head crash or motor failure. SanDisk gives a five year warranty with no mention of write cycle limitations and I did see a data sheet somewhere that showed you could shoot a CF full of pix every day and erase them every night for 27 years and still not reach the write cycle limit. I cannot remember what brand that was. I have lost cout of failed HDDs around here and never lost a byte on CF. There are nearly as many CFs here as HDDs now and if you have a look at new laptops you'll see more and more SSHD and hybrids every time a new model comes out. Practically speaking if you buy a decent brand of CF or spend the extra on an "industrial" model you can expect years of service out of it. I'm sure that Bamboo Charlie makes cheapies in CF as well as mobos and other junk, don't buy from him.... > >The foreseeable future people need to be really careful while choosing >memory cards as hard disk replacements. Bought any Seagate drives lately? ;) > >+++chefren > Rod/ /earth: write failed, file system is full cp: /earth/creatures: No space left on device
