CF cards wear out?

[Brad Knowles]

At 5:13 PM +0200 2003/12/12, Matthew West wrote:

>  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.

	This defeats the whole purpose of using CF cards -- the fact that 
the device has no "unreliable" rotating media.

	If you put IBM/Fujitsu MicroDrives in there, you might as well 
put a real hard drive in a real computer, since that will likely have 
a longer lifespan than a tiny fragile little CFII MicroDrive.

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