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Old 12-19-2006, 02:24 PM   #118
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Originally Posted by scotty1024
Endurance for the FLASH memory devices is measured in millions of cycles. The Sandisk Disk on Chip inside the iLiad rotates writes across all of the available blocks inside it to keep the writes spread out over the entire chip instead of hammering away on the same "hot blocks" over and over again.
Actually it also rotates in the no available blocks, according the specifications. It seems that randomly one free block is exchanged with a used block or some subtle trick.
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