> "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> writes:
> > On 14 Jan 2003 at 23:43, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> But I fear the real problem is going to be that FLASH memory has a
> >> limited lifetime (measured in write cycles).
>
> > What, roughly, is the limit?
>
> I am probably a decade out of date on this, but when I last paid
> attention I think it was on the order of magnitude of 10000 write
> cycles --- which Postgres could blow through in no time. I hope
> it's better now, but I dunno by how much. Anyone have more
> up-to-date info?
We just bought a compact flash from viking and I believe it was 100,000.
It might have been 1mil, but now I don't remember. I'll ask my co-worker
when he gets in and if it's different let you know.
seems like it would still go through it pretty fast though.