Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 20:15:24 -0600 From: Jim Thompson <jim@netgate.com> To: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> Cc: bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net>, freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Effect of partitioning on wear-leveling Message-ID: <1973487B-0AA7-468D-A9CC-319FBE2122F0@netgate.com> In-Reply-To: <1458600070.68920.107.camel@freebsd.org> References: <20160321175952.GA83908@www.zefox.net> <1458586884.68920.96.camel@freebsd.org> <20160321221153.GB83908@www.zefox.net> <1458600070.68920.107.camel@freebsd.org>
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> On Mar 21, 2016, at 4:41 PM, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> wrote: >=20 > Also, it's been my experience that it's impossible to "wear out" an > sdcard. I once ran a program that just wrote random data continuously > at full speed to a 512MB card for several months nonstop. No noticible > effect on the card. I actually still use that card today (in one of > our older products whose filesystem image only needs about 40MB). Now try random power fails while writing. It won't last through 1000 of the= m. (eMMC is way better here.)=
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