From: Peter H. Coffin (hellsop_at_ninehells.com)
Date: Sat Aug 09 2003 - 09:39:00 PDT
On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 11:43:57AM -0400, Mark Bock wrote:
> Hi all. In addendum to my question about my flash RAM card freezing
> my 2100 upon package activation, I'm wondering how durable linear
> flash cards are. I think I read somewhere once that they have a
> relatively limited number of read/write cycles; I suppose mine may
> have reached its limit.
The cards do have a limit, but the limit's measured in thousands of
writes, and the Newt OS is smart enough to minimize the number of times
a particular chunk of territory is written to.
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