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["James Miller" <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

>From: Anthony Albert
>This is so - the read cycles are unlimited, but write cycles are
>limited.  Enough of them, to the same area, will, over time, cause the
>flash device to fail.
>
>That said, in early devices it was <10K write cycles.  Current devices
>are rated at >100K write cycles, and the controllers in the devices
>spread the write cycles out amongst the available blocks, evenly, so
>that no single block gets as many writes.

Thanks for the clarification. I must admit that I've never heard of anyone 
having a flash disk fail, and have certainly never had it happen to me. Has 
anyone else onlist either heard of one failing, or had one fail?

James