These people run io tools like iogen to it for a month at a time and reuse the flash next time a device needs testing (the flash is just a vessel). If you want to see what iogen does run it on your laptop with iogen -n5 and wait 1 minute. Now try to cold launch firefox.
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 07:54:11AM +0200, Markus Hennecke wrote: > Marco Peereboom schrieb: >> I work with people that run io tools against flash parts. I still have >> to see it fail too. Your puny little firewall will never write more to >> it than a month long stress test. This write fatigue argument is very >> silly. > > Generalization is always false. > I killed a 1GB SanDisk CF Card because of excessive logging of OpenVPN > Connections from WLAN Clients which unfortunately had power saving > enabled and dropped the connection every few minutes. Took me around 2 > or 3 weeks, I just forgot to reduce the log level. Perhaps those stress > tests are not stressing enough? That Card was a little bit older, but > seldom used, so there is a good chance that that scenario no longer > applies. > > Kind regards, > Markus
