RE: Does Compact Flash memory wear out?

["Roger" <roger@xxxxxxx>]

>
> I'm not sure where I read this some time ago, but does CF
> memory wear out if
> you keep writing too it? A scout on the net revealed one site
> that said it
> *might* wear out if used a cache/virtual memory, anyone heard of
this
> before?
>
CF cards use Flash EPROMs which have a cycle life of 10,000 - 100,000
writes. However the architecture of the CF card allows mapping of bad
bytes
and substitution from a spare memory area, so they should last longer
than
this.

Roger Shingler

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