Hi If half the disk is un-used, there's a *lot* of space to move the directory sectors off to as they wear ...
>From past experience frying these parts (been there done that), the magic >"failure" point is simply time it takes the average cell to hit a certain bit >error rate. Some get further others don't. Since they all are doing error >checking to catch and correct the failure, the "death spiral" is pretty slow. >The controller should be able to keep up with it. Bob On Feb 3, 2010, at 2:45 AM, Ralph Green wrote: > Howdy, > If you are careful to not do more than one write to each sector per > day, you should make it. An MLC cell should take 10000 writes. 20 > years is 7305 days, so there is no room for 2 writes per day. > If you write to a normal filesystem, the directory sectors are not > going to survive. Even with wear leveling, there will be too many > writes. > Good luck, > Ralph > > On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 18:08 -0500, Bob Camp wrote: >> Hi >> >> If I can re-write the entire disk once a day for 20 years, that's good >> enough for what I'm doing. > > _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
