25 Sep
2008
25 Sep
'08
5:37 a.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
Take a good 8" floppy and drive and perform
continuous read/write
verify on a couple of tracks. Do the same for a CF card. Which will
die first?
Is that a drive with or without wear-leveling circuitry? ;)
I thought CF cards were normally good for about 10k write ops - I'm not sure
you could get that out of an unattended floppy drive, but maybe it's possible
assuming scheduled maintenance (i.e. cleaning the drive heads)