[TESTING] Updated 5/14/11 New Kernel - Temp Test - SOD Fix!

[ffkip911]

fish----ahhhh, gotcha. NDNO is the man, he got me up an running on it.

Now here's a question, spinning hard drives can become "etched" also, when data is stored, the spinning disk sometimes needs to be defraged-----however, i was under the impression that flash has no such drawbacks because there is nothing physically moving. so how could pushing and pulling data from one section wear it out??

[fishingmedic]

Originally Posted by ffkip911

fish----ahhhh, gotcha. NDNO is the man, he got me up an running on it.

Now here's a question, spinning hard drives can become "etched" also, when data is stored, the spinning disk sometimes needs to be defraged-----however, i was under the impression that flash has no such drawbacks because there is nothing physically moving. so how could pushing and pulling data from one section wear it out??

I just remember reading in one of the threads here about constantly reformatting the sd card because there is only so many read/write cycles that a sd card can handle and that constant reading/writing to the card can cause it to prematurely die, but I'm not an expert by any means on this. Maybe arrrghhh or one of the dev's could give more info on this. I believe it was Nate who was talking about it, but don't quote me on that.

[ModmyPPC]

Originally Posted by fishingmedic

I just remember reading in one of the threads here about constantly reformatting the sd card because there is only so many read/write cycles that a sd card can handle and that constant reading/writing to the card can cause it to prematurely die, but I'm not an expert by any means on this. Maybe arrrghhh or one of the dev's could give more info on this. I believe it was Nate who was talking about it, but don't quote me on that.

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

[bitslizer]

Originally Posted by fishingmedic

I just remember reading in one of the threads here about constantly reformatting the sd card because there is only so many read/write cycles that a sd card can handle and that constant reading/writing to the card can cause it to prematurely die, but I'm not an expert by any means on this. Maybe arrrghhh or one of the dev's could give more info on this. I believe it was Nate who was talking about it, but don't quote me on that.

fish is right, all current flash memory, there's a limited # of read/write they can perform before they simply wear out. think of it as number of time you can turn on a lightbulb before it burn out, even though no moving part, they can still eventually wear out, depending on the flash memory, I think the design life is typically over 10k write cycle though.