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BillW50
Flightless Bird
In news:hiqnvm$kf2$1@reader1.panix.com,
the wharf rat typed on Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:50:46 +0000 (UTC):
> In article <hiqmeq$mc1$1@news.eternal-september.org>,
> BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> wrote:
>>
>> True, but that takes 100,000 rewrites per cell to kill it. Writing
>> 100MB
>
> Not really. Given a sufficiently large population of cells one
> cell will fail for every certain number of writes. The chances of any
> particular cell failing on any particular write are about 1 in 100000,
> but the chances of any one of the cells in the array failing are much
> larger. And they're still dependent on the number of writes, so SOME
> cells will INEVITABLY fail.
So? In time a hard drive will suffer a bad sector or two. They are
marked as bad and life moves on. The same on a flash drive. No big deal.
--
Bill
Asus EEE PC 702G8 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC
Windows XP SP2
the wharf rat typed on Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:50:46 +0000 (UTC):
> In article <hiqmeq$mc1$1@news.eternal-september.org>,
> BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> wrote:
>>
>> True, but that takes 100,000 rewrites per cell to kill it. Writing
>> 100MB
>
> Not really. Given a sufficiently large population of cells one
> cell will fail for every certain number of writes. The chances of any
> particular cell failing on any particular write are about 1 in 100000,
> but the chances of any one of the cells in the array failing are much
> larger. And they're still dependent on the number of writes, so SOME
> cells will INEVITABLY fail.
So? In time a hard drive will suffer a bad sector or two. They are
marked as bad and life moves on. The same on a flash drive. No big deal.
--
Bill
Asus EEE PC 702G8 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC
Windows XP SP2