[OM] Re: Lexar 4gb CF Deal

[Ken Norton]

 >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.


I was thinking the same thing, but we're talking about the firmware which is
updated maybe once a year and a configuration save on-average of twice per
month.

Yet, using large-capacity CF cards as backups is intruiging, but the cost of
real hard-drives has dropped so much that I wouldn't hesitate to pick up a
few for putting into my bank safe-deposit-box instead of DVDs.  The DVD
stack is over two inches thick and they are sealed in freezer bags

AG


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