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From: miquels@cistron-office.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
Subject: Re: Compactflash cards dying?
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 08:50:58 +0000 (UTC)
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In article <1044232591.545.8.camel@sonja>,
Daniel Egger  <degger@fhm.edu> wrote:
>CF has limited write cycles. A few hundred if you're lucky.
>And depending on the type of flash it's quite likely that every
>changed byte will result in a whole block being written back.

Then why if I google for 'compact flash write cycles' all specs
of flash cards I found say 100000 write cycles at least ?

Mike.
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