JJ wrote:
I would only look at CF adpater as an alternative to HDD if you use your miggy mainly for games. There is alot less writes then.
Modern flash memory will last a very long time thanks to write balancing. The amount of writes they report is per sector and you do not actually write to the same sector every time, the flash remaps it transparently to balance the wear.
Hypothesis: flash sectors are 512B, MTBF is 100 000 writes, you write once per second, CF card is 4GB:
- you have 4194304 bytes
- means 8192 sectors of 512 bytes
- the whole card lasts for 819 200 000 seconds of 24/7 writing, which is 9481.48148 days which is around 25 years.
You do not normally write once per second, but even in the worst case scenario your card will last 25 years? I know this is not the real world situation, normally there is less free space on the card, as some of it is software and only some is data.. You must also remember that the cards have a huge amount (someone said double) of spare sectors that it maps in as the originals die.
Unless there is some bad manufacturing defect in the CF card, it will probably last longer than the Amiga it is plugged into, as the Amiga has a head start of at least 14 years towards hardware failure.