SD Card, programs and life of the flash

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lightfoot256
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SD Card, programs and life of the flash

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I was thinking about storing data on SD card when I realised that with only 4k of ram you're data needs to live in the flash area to be of any use and considering the data needs to be "flashed" to get there, each time you copy any data surely you're using up a single cycle of the (10,000 cycle life? - or was it 100,000?).

I hate limits, and surely a system that deteriorates with each game load is eventually going to fail?

Although even at 10,000 cycles, if I load 10 games a day every day I get 2.7 years out of it which isn't too bad I guess. Even if you did 20 loads per day that's still over a year and within "1 year warranty" :-p.

64k ram would be nice :-D.
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Re: SD Card, programs and life of the flash

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I thought the rated cycles for Flash memory was for the number of writes, not reads. Reads should be free. No?
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Re: SD Card, programs and life of the flash

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Just replace the flash.


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Re: SD Card, programs and life of the flash

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yeah, well, most game consoles have lasers/contacts with about 100K cycle lives ;)
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