Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: EMC Black Box

> i was told the other day that compact flash has a degridation problem... i
> was skeptical, so i researched it and found most suppliers show a MTBF of
> 1,000,000 to 10,000,000hours... uh... 114 years? oh my, what if in 114
> years it fails!!! ohNO!!!!! anyhow, sarcasm aside, ive gotta work---Dave L.

I believe the lifetime issue is really that you can only erase and
rewrite the cells so many times. It should last indefinitely in
program or even data storage, but I'd be worried about having a
constantly changing swap partition on one. With enough ram you can
probably run linux without swap (I certainly have - although I suppose
it might crash horribly if you ever ran out of memory) so that might
be worth looking into given today's low ram prices.

Chris Stratton

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