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From: Arno on 13 Aug 2010 15:36
JW <none(a)dev.null> wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:20:16 +0200 David Brown
> <david(a)westcontrol.removethisbit.com> wrote in Message id:
> <4c651c95$0$14477$8404b019(a)news.wineasy.se>:

>>On 13/08/2010 11:01, JW wrote:

> [...]

>>Yes, I know about Rod. I have had interesting discussions with him on
>>several occasions - I've even learned a few things from him. But once
>>something triggers his rodbot mode, there's no going back - it's the end
>>of that branch of the newsgroup thread.

> Yup. On a side note, I've been running a write endurance test on a 8GB
> compact flash plugged into a compact flash to PATA adapter. I'm using
> Passmark BurnInTest on the disk drive only at 100% utilization since July
> of 2009. So far, I've written and verified 142 terabytes to the drive with
> no errors which would be about 17,750 over-writes. Pretty impressive...
> The media is Transcend 100X industrial and is spec'd at two million
> over-writes, so I guess I can expect a write failure sometime after 2100
> or so. A pity they don't make power supplies and motherboards that can
> last that long.

Extrapolating from a cheap Kingsrton 2GB I killed successfully
(3700 overwrites, I guess rated at 10000), I would say you can expect
about 700'000 overwrites before it breaks. Could take a while.

Arno



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