Re: [NTLK] wearing out internal memory? (longish)

From: Stainless Steel Rat (ratinox_at_peorth.gweep.net)
Date: Tue Aug 07 2001 - 10:42:53 EDT


* "Eric L. Strobel" <fyzycyst_at_home.com> on Tue, 07 Aug 2001
| The key there is "What is the block size?" If it's some reasonable size (~
| 1K) then I expect you'll never notice the loss of something smaller than one
| percent of your memory. (unless, of course, something very important is
| there...)

Not quite. Flash blocks wear on write, not on read. When a write error
occours, the control circuitry in the flash media itself will automagically
switch to a different block, and mark the bad block as being bad. The OS
never sees the error, and you never lose any data.

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