On Thursday 24 July 2008, Jim Colton wrote: > If so, what are the consequences to the longevity of the SD Card?
Depends what you're doing I suppose. It'll be relatively slow; the SD and the graphics data both go over the same relatively restricted bus. If you need more than the available RAM for something and aren't worried about the performance hit then it may be worth it. As for the lifetime of the card, I doubt it'll be a problem. I've seen calculations suggesting the lifetime for continuous random writes on flash drives is now in years. In practise I've seen machines with CF cards as their only storage and reasonably heavy write usage that have an uptime approaching 3 years. I've not seen CF fail due to excessive writes in about 4 years of using them, and I suspect SD is now similar. _______________________________________________ support mailing list support@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support