> On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:15:25 -0500, Ted Unangst <ted.unan...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > As the manufacturers point out, 10,000 write cycles (basically the > > minimum) means you can overwrite the flash once per day for 27 years. > > That's a lot of IO for a soekris. > > It's possible to kill CF cards doing builds or similar. The wear leveling > isn't that great.
I've been at this for a while, as you might guess. I've only ever seen two CF cards die. Around ten years ago, when they came to the market. I've used hundreds for various purposes. I've run a zaurus on a CF card (replace the drive to make it faster and run last longer). They never die. Same with SD and XD cards. I've taken nearly a hundred thousand photos and none of my cards are dead. The cards just plain don't die, and apparently the meme won't either.
