Re: Quietness of 2.5" vs. 1.8" Notebook Drives

Eric Gisin wrote:

"John Turco" <jtur@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:4801CA94.553D1020@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
JW wrote:

On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:10:58 -0500 John Turco <jtur@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
in Message id: <47FF4742.D30883@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

I followed the link you've provided, above...still, I'd be concerned about
flash memory's relatively limited number of rewrite cycles (approximately
100,000, typically), if I were you.

Some industrial flash is good for 2 million writes. Combine that with wear
leveling this is not as bad as you might think. We've shipped over a
thousand XP embedded systems on CF in the last few years, and I've yet to
see a drive wear out.

Oh, I was already aware of "wear leveling," but, didn't know about that "2
million writes" stuff.

If you knew about wear leveling all along,
why do continue to post your paranoid claim about flash memory "wearing out"?


Hello, Eric:

No "paranoia" involved, wise guy. <g> Besides, if the Windows "page file" is
enabled, even 2,000,000 write cycles will be used up, pretty quickly -- wear
leveling, or not.


Cordially,
John Turco <jtur@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
.

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