Re: [beagleboard] BBB eMMC health ...

2015-08-29 Thread Philippe Frossard
Le 28/08/2015 15:39, Gerald Coley a écrit : The eMMC will die when it runs out of space. If a sector goes bad, it gets marked as bad and you loose the space. It is all handled by the controller inside the eMMC. Very similar to a Solid State Drive. MTBF depends on how you are using it. Most

Re: [beagleboard] BBB eMMC health ...

2015-08-29 Thread Graham
Gerald: What is the largest (addressable memory space) eMMC that will fit on the existing board footprint on the BBB Rev. C ? --- Graham == On Saturday, August 29, 2015 at 4:17:38 AM UTC-5, philippe.frossard wrote: Le 28/08/2015 15:39, Gerald Coley a écrit : The eMMC will die when it

Re: [beagleboard] BBB eMMC health ...

2015-08-29 Thread Gerald Coley
Based on Kingston's road map, 128GB. 64GB for Micron. Next controllers will be 5.0. Gerald On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 11:54 AM, Graham gra...@flex-radio.com wrote: Gerald: What is the largest (addressable memory space) eMMC that will fit on the existing board footprint on the BBB Rev. C ?

Re: [beagleboard] BBB eMMC health ...

2015-08-28 Thread Philippe Frossard
Hi, I don't want to change the eMMC chips ... I just want to know when the eMMC chips go to the end of life ... And, also change the BBB (not the eMMC chip) ! Are there informations to know the MTBF of the BBB ? Or wait a BBB with eMMC 5.0 ... Thanks. Le 27/08/2015 15:31, Gerald Coley a écrit :

Re: [beagleboard] BBB eMMC health ...

2015-08-28 Thread Gerald Coley
The eMMC will die when it runs out of space. If a sector goes bad, it gets marked as bad and you loose the space. It is all handled by the controller inside the eMMC. Very similar to a Solid State Drive. MTBF depends on how you are using it. Most likely thing to fail would be the processor so you

Re: [beagleboard] BBB eMMC health ...

2015-08-27 Thread Gerald Coley
I have never heard of anyone having to replace and eMMC on the BBB. If you are using it a lot then I suggest that you put a bigger one on. Gerald On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 4:50 AM, Philippe Frossard philippe.fross...@free.fr wrote: Hi, Could we get eMMC health (KE4CN2H5A), I read about eMMC

[beagleboard] BBB eMMC health ...

2015-08-27 Thread Philippe Frossard
Hi, Could we get eMMC health (KE4CN2H5A), I read about eMMC 4.5 and the health is not available ... How to know when we need to change the BBB ? A link for more informations about Kingstone eMMC