Flash life

Posted Sep 24, 2008 0:41 UTC (Wed) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047)
In reply to: Flash life by man_ls
Parent article: LPC: Booting Linux in five seconds

Yeah, I'd heard that before, but Val Henson wrote a <a href="http://valhenson.livejournal.com/25228.html">blog entry</a> which made a strong counterargument.

Flash life

Posted Sep 24, 2008 6:49 UTC (Wed) by man_ls (guest, #15091) [Link]

Thanks for the link. It is not so convincing though: even without any wear levelling there is a big safety margin.

But if flash memory life really worries you, you can buy an 8GB SD memory card for $20, stick it into your Eee and place the most frequently written-to filesystems (/var, swap) on it. If it ever goes wrong you just replace it (and maybe get a new one for free if inside the 5-year warranty).

I have a similar setup and it works fine. Just be sure to buy a fast SD card or suspend will take a long time.

Flash life

Posted Sep 25, 2008 1:59 UTC (Thu) by deleteme (guest, #49633) [Link]

I've been running on Compact Flash since 2005 works fine.