timothy murphy sfseoquheircomnet mon 08 oct 2007 brian foster wrote doesnt matter package flash card stick drive ide whatever sector flash much larger disc sectors finite number erasewrite cycles number _is_ varies map depending technology nand flash manufacturer tc afaicr manufacturers provide guarantees certain sectors eg 0 numbers ive recall seeing range 100000 cycles something around one million backofenvelope number ive used many years maximum 250000 reliable erasewrite cycles per sector thanks info actually one servers im thinking sleeping time maybe flash mortality wont matter much wonder via epia boards suspend ok acpi wed 06 aug 2008 030437 0100 ilug via epia server