The best OS to deal with Flash Cards

John Vetterli jvetterli-zC6tqtfhjqE at public.gmane.org
Mon Aug 29 18:23:38 UTC 2005


On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Francois Ouellette wrote:
> Flash cards have a maximum number of times they can be written to. As simple
> as this!
> I remember seeing specs talking of about 1000 as a maximum, but this can
> vary between brands.

I think lifetimes are on the order of millions of writes.  I tried going 
to Sandisk's website to check, but they don't seem to have the information 
in an easy-to-find location.

JV
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