CF cards wear out?

[Matthew D. Fuller]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 05:13:11PM +0200 I heard the voice of
Matthew West, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> If you're going to be using a system like the Soekris boards and your
> project requires a media that you can do a lot of writes too, I would
> recommend something like IBM's Microdrives.  You should be able to fit
> these inside the Soekris chassis without a problem.  The NET4801 has a
> Microdrive IDE connector on the board.

Note, though, that Microdrives tend to have a really low advertised MTBF.
I mean, _really_ low.  Like, maybe a year of constant running?



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