Thread: Virtual Memory - Wears down flash card?
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SamAdam is offline SamAdam
2007-08-16 , 23:43
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Originally Posted by bholzman View Post
Can setting up virtual memory on my flash card (e.g. on 770) wear down the card? Flash cards are specified to be good for a certain number of writes and I was wondering whether use of virtual memory in this way might be write intensive.
it takes several hundred thousand writes afaik to damage it. that, and the card has build-in write balancing, so if you have a 2GB card, a 128 MB mem can be moved around a lot. And by the time it goes bad (few years), they will be so cheap that in the time you may have saved by having the virtual memory will have by far repaid the cost of a new card.