[mythtv-users] New Frontend, Any gotchas with Compact Flash storage

[Andy Burns]

On 02/03/2008 13:15, Sam Logen wrote:

> And if you are not already aware, flash media can only
> accept a limited amount of writes (about 100,000 or
> so)

True, though that number relates to writes *per sector* and the drives 
generally incorporate wear-levelling so that writes are evenly 
distributed across physical sectors.

e.g. a 4GB flash card will take nearly a trillion individual writes.