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[ts-7000] Re: SD card corruption, please help!

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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: SD card corruption, please help!
From: "Richard Sharpe" <>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 06:09:11 -0000
--- In  Kevin Cozens <> wrote:

> SD cards are not hard drives. From what I have heard/read, they have 
> limits on the number of times data can be written to them before you 
> will wear them out. Writing to an SD card will usually require the 
> need to update the directory information so that portion of the 
> device can wear out faster. If the directory area gets worn out, you 
> will run in to all kinds of problems accessing your data.

This is correct. You might only get 100,000 to 250,000 erase cycles on
each block (2048 bytes?) and any update withing that block requires an
erase and rewrite.

I don't think you should be using Ext2/3 on Flash, you should be using
a Flash File System, because these file systems do wear leveling so
that erases are spread evenly across all the blocks.



 
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