> On 16.09.10 21:40, Jim Pingle wrote: >> And IIRC if the card has any kind of built-in wear >> leveling, it will extend the life of the card to 8 times what it would >> have otherwise been. >> > This calculation is IMHO a bit too optimistic. I think wear levelling > works with some percentage, maybe 5 or 10% defects but not 87,5%. But I > am not expert. >
In any case, this just seems to work just fine... unfortunately I didn't find sandisk at my reseller, they had dane-elec or kingston. Being with kingston last time and these boot issues, I chose dane-elecs this time... they were the same size, but 3x more expensive than kingston... Not that "more expensive" is better - but having no other alternative at hand - I chose to go this way... Other than that - when using Physdiskwrite to write the 4GB image - it consistently failed at about 400kbytes written... When I took the 512MB image, all 5 cards wrote without a hassle... (I tried 3 cards with the 4GB image, only one succeeded !) I decided to rewrite all 5 cards with the 512MB image - this went well (also, when duplicating the slice to s2, this is also far much faster now - logically :) ) Thanks for the explaining - don't know if this dane-elec has wear-levelling though (I'd suspect they would mention this, if it was) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
