[Wylug-discuss] compact flash cards used as IDE disk....

[Jim Jackson]

On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Steve King wrote:

> On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Jim Jackson wrote:
>
> > Does nobody know the max rewrite limits for these things?
>
> manufacturers say about 1000 times per sector... so pretty bad for
> /tmp :(
>

So if you use CFcards for cameras, they are good for fully filling with
images 1000 times? Interesting I hadn't realised it was as low as that,
worth remembering. Definitely needs to used as a readonly boot device
then.

Jim