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Re: GPS logger with voice recording - Wear balancing for SD/MMC card needed?

by Shawn Tan Ser Ngiap :: Rate this Message:

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On Sunday 11 May 2008 16:40:26 Wojciech Zabolotny wrote:
> The most important problem I'm facing right now is: how to store the
> information on the SD/MMC card to balance the wear?
> Does the internal controller perform any block readdressing to balance
> the wear?

The cards these days have an extremely large number of write cycles before
failure. And, they are fairly cheap to replace anyway. So, I wouldn't worry
too much about write balancing.

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