Re: [NTLK] "Router" Cards??? Was: BTI batteries

From: Robert Benschop (rbenschop_at_mac.com)
Date: Tue Feb 26 2002 - 14:46:52 EST


on 26-02-2002 8:28, Laurent Daudelin at laurent_daudelin_at_fanniemae.com
wrote:

> 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.

As explained not so long ago on the list it actually depends on the way the
router was configured, if all the data were on the card it would be used up
very fast, if it were on the internal store the card would get normal usage.
(guess that a lot of people that configure routers in companies are pretty
lazy, but what's new ;-)

The way you can tell is by filling the card up to the brim (WordNewt or
Lexionary are good packages to start with) and by the time you're filling
the card over 80 % and more it will start to give errors and complain in
general.

Robert Benschop

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