On 26/02/02 14:19, "Mitchell Vice" <happyjack_at_mac.com> wrote:
> What's wrong with "router" cards? I've had a 20MB Cisco for over 3
> years and it's been flawless. Anything I should know about?
>
> ::mitch::
>
>>> "John Goggan" <jgoggan_at_dcg.com> wrote:
>>> Also -- I may have a lead on a quanitity of 32MB PCMCIA FlashRAM cards.
>>
>> If the cards are known to have *NOT* been used in a router (sorry if my
>> English construct is bad), then I would say that $45 is a fair price. I paid
>> $39 for mine on eBay a few weeks ago.
I've read time and again bad stories about PCMCIA flash RAM cards that were
brought to the end of their life by routers constantly writing to them, thus
exhausting the average 100,000 write cycles that these cards are usually
good for.
-Laurent.
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