Re: [OT] End of hard disks era, new ways of development

Flash drives tend to have a maximum number of writes per "section." I understand it is around 100,000 right now. That is ok for somemthing that is user-directed (cuz there's no way you're getting anything like that by hand) but as a hard drive... you'd max out after awhile.

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Re^2: [OT] End of hard disks era, new ways of development by adrianh (Chancellor) on Aug 10, 2004 at 09:52 UTC
Flash drives tend to have a maximum number of writes per "section." I understand it is around 100,000 right now. That is ok for somemthing that is user-directed (cuz there's no way you're getting anything like that by hand) but as a hard drive... you'd max out after awhile. Ah, but if you have very large amounts of very cheap storage - why delete anything? You have a persistant versioned FS instead and never have to worry about accidentally deleting something you shouldn't again :-)	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: [OT] End of hard disks era, new ways of development by diotalevi (Canon) on Aug 10, 2004 at 12:41 UTC
Yeah... but your file system needs to get updated as you add onto it. Each update to a section is another write.	[reply]