[mythtv-users] IDE or CF

[John Drescher]

On Jan 22, 2008 11:14 PM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 01/22/2008 04:01 PM, John Drescher wrote:
> > The most important thing here is that the CF card has wear leveling
> > built in or you use a file system that supports that. If you get a
> > large enough CF drive and have wear leveling it should take quite some
> > time to wear it out considering how slow the CF writes data and that
> > each cell can take 100,000 (or more) writes before failure.
>
> I thought most flash memory today could handle 1,000,000 cycles?
>
You are correct but the problem is that there are some lower rated
chips still around so it is important to check.

John