Hello,
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Originally Posted by Nonesuch
With modern "wear leveling" features in compact-flash, these extreme steps to avoid writing to flash are no longer necessary.
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Indeed. Someone noted that even if a CF card only lasted 100,000 cycles (a very low number) it could be written to continuously for half a year before failure. Modern cards are generally rated for 2-4 million cycles.
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Originally Posted by Nonesuch
Additionally, some "133x" or otherwise "high-speed" cards support multi-word DMA, while some cards will report DMA capability but don't actually support it, causing unusual issues with BSD.
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I'm looking right now at the SanDisk Extreme III cards (4 or 8GB). Do you know of any issues with these?