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Re: [ts-7000] Flash longevity.

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Subject: Re: [ts-7000] Flash longevity.
From: Donald Carr <>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:17:18 -0500
A number of the newer TS board take the microSD format. For the
others, better to just buy the standard size SD.

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Don Tucker <> wrote:
> Since the TS boards use SD cards instead of microSD cards, I would need an
> SD-to-microSD adapter to use something newer (and better).  Has anyone used
> an adapter that they can recommend?  Were there any issues with getting the
> driver for the adapter loaded and running on the TS board?
>
> Don Tucker
>
> On 7/22/2011 2:41 PM, Donald Carr wrote:
>>
>> I was reading the post on all of the worries about flash, and
>> remembered an article that I read. If you buy high en flash products
>> they can tolerate as much as 1000x more writes before failure than the
>> cheapos.
>>
>> Read this article about testing USB flash, and the differences, but, I
>> think it would apply equally to high end microSD cards.
>>
>> http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/usb-drive-life-fact-or-fiction/849
>>
>> One of the high end products, they could not even break, as they did
>> not have enough time even doing continuous writes 24 hours a day to
>> destroy it:
>>
>> "Even better news: the premium Memorex drive did not break! FWIW they
>> predicted failure after 60,000,000,000 writes - they just didn’t have
>> time to do that many"
>>
>> So, a lot of the worries go away if you make sure you get a good microSD
>> card.
>>
>> I have applications running on a TS-7300 booting from SD, over 2 years
>> without problems, where there is power loss at times, and it was not
>> the very high end, just a good brand name SD. I had another
>> application running the TS-7300, doing data logging on a train every
>> second for 4 months (obviously no fflush() after every write, a write
>> only occurred when the buffer was full), and it did not fail. The
>> other thing is that in case of failure, you just send out a new SD
>> card . . .
>>
>> Don.
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Donald W. Carr
>> Arrayán #21, Zapopan, Mexico
>> Work  +52-333-836-4511 (direct)
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>>
>>
>
>



--
Dr. Donald W. Carr
Arrayán #21, Zapopan, Mexico
Work  +52-333-836-4511 (direct)
Work  +52-333-836-4500 ext 2930
Home +52-331-562-4370
Cell 331-269-3416


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