Um, are you sure it's the Flash that's wearing out?

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by Another Scott

12/15/05 3:15:25 PM

Um, are you sure it's the Flash that's wearing out?

It's the (erasing and) writing that has a finite life in flash memory cells. [link|http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0WUB/is_2000_March_6/ai_60034081|1 Million Write Cycles] is a common guaranteed benchmark.

I would be very surprised if the flash memory chips themselves were wearing out. Maybe the solder connections or the contacts were having problems?

Cheers,
Scott.
(Who has a SanDisk cruzer mini 512 MB and a Corsair Flash Voyager 1 GB and figures he'll never wear them out.)

This is the way the iPod ends. - (Meerkat) - (12) - Dec. 15, 2005, 06:42:10 AM EST

That was exactly the way my ARCHOS player ended - (bepatient) - (9) - Dec. 15, 2005, 12:18:49 PM EST

This is why I will only buy solid state players -NT - (admin) - (8) - Dec. 15, 2005, 01:56:07 PM EST

Which also wear out - (pwhysall) - (1) - Dec. 15, 2005, 02:13:37 PM EST

Um, are you sure it's the Flash that's wearing out? - (Another Scott) - Dec. 15, 2005, 03:15:25 PM EST

Too small - (tuberculosis) - (5) - Dec. 15, 2005, 03:45:45 PM EST

For what? - (admin) - (4) - Dec. 15, 2005, 07:43:10 PM EST

For me - (tuberculosis) - (2) - Dec. 15, 2005, 09:04:22 PM EST

Agreed. - (pwhysall) - (1) - Dec. 16, 2005, 01:16:51 AM EST

About the same here - (SpiceWare) - Dec. 16, 2005, 09:54:42 AM EST

Same problem. Everything is too small - (bepatient) - Dec. 16, 2005, 01:04:55 PM EST

Head crash! - (jake123) - (1) - Dec. 15, 2005, 12:59:07 PM EST

It's still (just) functional - (Meerkat) - Dec. 15, 2005, 03:39:35 PM EST

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