Re: [OT] iPod Nano Announced

[Joseph Heenan <joseph-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In message <43201E9A.4090107@xxxxxxx>
Simon Ryley <simon.ryley@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Very nice, but my fiancee is going to kill me for not telling her
about
> it, as she has just bought an ipod mini...
>
> But I didn't know it was coming.
>
> Anyone know how many writes the flash memory is rated for?  Probably
> won't matter if you use it as a mp3 player, but will be more important
> if you use it as a hard drive.

Most flash chips are specced for at least 100,000 write cycles these
days. You'd be fairly unlikely to reach this before the thing broke
for other reasons or became obsolete, unless you put the windows swap
file on it :-)

Joseph

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