That's 5% of flash memory that is being written to all the time for a
period of 36 months... a technology which has a known "wear rate".
That's much different than archiving after a single use.
Chuck Norcutt
Ken Norton wrote:
> To date, Flash Memory has not been considered to be "archival" by any
> means. In fact, within the telecom industry it has already been proven to
> be, uh, less than stable. I understand and agree with what Wayne is saying,
> but in actual practice we're experiencing failures. From what I'm hearing
> from my cohorts on the supply side--it is looking like about 5% of 36 months
> of in-service devices are experiencing corrupted memory. Inotherwords, one
> out of every 20 boxes is getting random failures pointing directly to
> corrupted flash memory withing three years. This 5% failure rate definitely
> coincides with our own experiences. What really gets one sweating is when
> you have a device that needs rebooting and it doesn't come back online
> because the programming and configuration, which is stored on flash memory
> is corrupted. Trust me, it happens more often than anybody wants to admit.
> That's why, in our own company, we have a pretty tough procedure to follow
> before we ever cycle a box.
>
> Archiving of images is a HUGE issue within the forensic and scientific
> communities. The solution which is emerging as the gold standard? Film.
> Police departments around the world have been migrating towards film
> backup. They shoot digital, print digitally, but either use a
> digital-to-film device or are photographing in a copy stand the digital
> prints onto 35mm film.
>
> AG
>
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