Re: [NTLK] [not OT] Alignment problems [was "[OT] Coffee & the Newt" [was "Re: 2010?"]]

From: Cerebus <cerebus2_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri Sep 01 2006 - 19:40:56 EDT

On 9/1/06, Cerebus <cerebus2@gmail.com> wrote:

> NOR flash (the first flash memory type) has a lifetime of up to a
> million write cycles (if it's top-quality, that is; the lower bound is
> about three orders of magnitude less). The mean for NOR flash is
> about 100K write cycles.

After a little more research, linear flash cards are all NOR flash, as
they are intended for use as non-volitile memory. NOR flash supports
random access, but NAND flash only allows sequential access.

-- Tim

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