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To: Steve 667 who wrote (13981)	8/16/2000 7:33:38 PM
From: Steve Lee	Read Replies (1) of 60323

Flash cards will survive so many write operations. I don't have the number to hand but believe it is in the region of 100,000. You will probably lose your CF card or die yourself before rewriting it that many times, and it contains circuitry to map out dead areas. But computer main memory is written to many times in just one day of normal use so a limit even in the hundreds of thousands would soon be reached. E.g, If you lived 300 years, a 100 MB flash card would allow you to take tens of megapixel photos per day before reaching 100,000 rewrites - hence the card outliving you.

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