Last I heard, each location on a flash EEPROM stick is good for about
250,000 write cycles and 10 Meg read cycles. The chips are supposed to
have circuitry in them that balance the usage over the entire surface of
the chip so one cell doesn't wear out a lot faster than the others.
Thus, when you read a sector and write it back out, it probably won't go
back into the same physical address on the EEPROM, but the logic on the
chip hides all that from the casual user.
For a database that is write once, read mostly, you probably wouldn't
have a lot of trouble, If I were doing it, I'd try to have most of the
sorting and other manipulations done in regular RAM or on the hard
drive to minimize repeated changes on the stick itself.
Dave
eWobbuh wrote:
If you'll give me money i'll try that.
Im not asking to try it for me, just wondering if anyone knows approx.
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