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Originally Posted by ModmyPPC
When I bought my sdcard from newegg it mentioned there being a limit (Durability: 10,000 insertion/removal cycles) to the read/write cycles... Thats why im hesitant on reformating my sdcard all the time. 
Im curious though if its every time I copy a file its considered one write cycle. or is it if I copyied 10 files at once thats considered one write cycle.
It cost me like 60$ its a transcend 16gb class 6.
http://ec.transcendusa.com/product/I...ID=TS16GUSDHC6 |
I'm not sure about Sd cards, but I know that on the Nand, the individual unit of storage is a block. Depending the the Nand hardware, a block can be 32kb, 64kb, 128kb, etc. The write cycle is per block. So if you copy a file, let's say 64kb and the block can hold 32kb, the nand driver will use 2 blocks (plus any overhead) to write that file; the driver is smart enough to use wearleveling to spread out the writes over the whole Nand; it may be similarly with a sd card.
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