On 16/12/2009, at 4:50 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: >> 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.
i havent been using flash media as long as theo, but i will second this. i also figure it is cheaper for me to replace the media if it fails (which hasnt happened yet) than spend the time tweaking the install to not write to the media much. same applies to cutting the install down to fit on small disks. maybe other people have less value associated with their time than i do though :) dlg
