Thread: Virtual Memory - Wears down flash card?
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henningspruth is offline henningspruth
2007-08-23 , 17:14
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Originally Posted by thel8elvis View Post
This will not answer your question about transcend, but try reading this
Excellent read - the summary is that for a flash-based storage accelerator in a server operating at the maximum theoretical write rate, the flash is expected to fail after 51 years.

Originally Posted by thel8elvis View Post
And also, consider products like the thousands of pmps that are all based on flash memory... have you heard of them 'wearing out' ?

Really, I don't think it's a valid issue to be concerned with.
Well, music players probably are written to less than 10000 times over their total lifetime, a swap file in a general purpose OS sees somewhat higher usage ...