Thread: N900 Specifications
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2009-09-20 , 19:01
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Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles View Post
My own internal 4GB SDHC that I've been using since mid-2007 to boot from and for swap and dozens of other people's similar arrangements on both N800s and N810s.
I've had one card die while in normal use inside my 770 and another two in the N800 (none on the N810 so far), but I have no idea why or what conclusions can be drawn from that, other than it's made me a bit more paranoid I guess ;-)

Originally Posted by attila77 View Post
Actually, it IS better to have all these on one big device, as the wear is then spread across more flash blocks
Maybe bigger device == wear spread across more blocks, but isn't this offset by more blocks == higher probability of some going bad? Either way, I'd prefer to keep things that cause lots of erase/write cycles out of the soldered-on chip.

Anyway, if this was a real problem, we'd be flooded with N810 users with dead internal cards by now
Oh, I'm not worried about it dying while still in warranty (all N810s are still < 2 years old).

Originally Posted by Bratag View Post
ext3 has been shown to be the superior FS many times. This is a pretty good writeup on why. The article specifically mentions is lower power consumption. Always handy in a mobile device.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext3
Compared to ReiserFS & XFS, which is irrelevant here. Compared to ext2 it should use slightly more power because of the journal (otherwise they're the same fs).