[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Doubts about flash memories and frequent writing

[From: Dave Neuer]

On 1/12/06, Lorn Potter <lpotter at trolltech.com> wrote:
>
> Older NOR flash has a 100,000 write limitation (complete write), NAND
> flash has about one million write cycles. All flash memory these days is
> NAND.
>
> I wouldn't recommend swap on flash, but you (if you must) probably want
> swap on a removable card.

Hmm. Though MMC is supposedly NAND, I seem to remember the RS-MMC and
mmcMobile cards I looked at advertizing a 100,000 erase cycle limit.

E.g. ATP: http://flash.atpinc.com/products/view.php?product_id=1032

Dave