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Forum Index : Microcontroller and PC projects : will exessive copy to a: kill my chip

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plasma
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Posted: 09:12am 29 May 2014

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What do you think about massive copy files to drive a: ?
i am not sure so i ask .

edit by Plasma:
Manual page 4 give the answer.

edit by Gizmo:
Plasma you asked a question, then edited you post to say you found the answer, but deleted the original question. No one learns from that, so I edited back in your original question.Edited by Gizmo 2014-05-30

Grogster

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Posted: 01:42pm 29 May 2014

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Despite the fact that you CAN kill the chip with excessive writes to the flash(this is true of ANY flash, not just the MM being singled-out here), as Geoff points out in his example on that page, if you are careful about how you write to the internal flash and how often, then the device could probably outlive most of us.

I am still using the same SD card on a MaxiMite for my security system development, and it reads and writes to the SD card all the time(well, anytime something happens, it is logged and printed), and now more then one hundred code revisions since I started it, and this card is still working fine - that's a lot of use, really, and I still have not had any flash read/write errors of any kind.

Naturally, I also have all the code developments backed up on the PC and several other places too - not just on the card, cos if that failed......

...let's just say: "Ouch."

Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops!

plasma
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Posted: 07:02am 30 May 2014

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@ Gizmo , i delete because the Question is also in the Topic .

sry , next time ill do it right.

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