Flash limitations?

Histo · Post by **Histo** » Fri May 20, 2005 5:50 pm

Is there a certain number of times that the firmware chip can be flashed? Or does anyone have any specs on the flash rom the firmware is held on?

spiral · Post by **spiral** » Fri May 20, 2005 6:23 pm

usually at least 10,000 to 100,000 times before corruptions may occur.

as for the specs, use the search function.

Histo · Post by **Histo** » Fri May 20, 2005 6:31 pm

Been searching for 30 minutes, maybe i'm tired.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri May 20, 2005 6:44 pm

Its your basic flash memory. All you need to know is, its not a hard drive, sectors wear out over time. Don't abuse it as a live writable filesystem, only change things when they need to change. One change a day for each sector probably will give you many years of use out of it. 100 changes each day is probably not good.

Not that I see where this is critical information. We have been using flash memory cards for a long time now. :)