"Assuming you write 1 GB worth of data each day, it will take 64 days to fill the card. So one ("1") write cycle = 64 days. A 100,000 write cycle will take 100,000 x 64 = 6.4 million days of usage at 1 GB per day before the limit is reached. This is the equivalent of 6,400,000/365.25 = 17,522 years of usage."
I think you can easily "write" 1GB of data a day if you take into account the underlying memory paging that's going on in the OS. If you're only using this as auxiliary file storage then your example is correct.
Okay, so let's assume you write 4 GB worth of data each day, including the swap file/memory paging, etc. It will take 16 days to fill the card. So one ("1") write cycle = 16 days. A 100,000 write cycle will take 100,000 x 16 = 1.6 million days of usage at 4 GB per day before the limit is reached. This is the equivalent of 1,600,000/365.25 = ~4,380 years of usage.
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"Assuming you write 1 GB worth of data each day, it will take 64 days to fill the card. So one ("1") write cycle = 64 days. A 100,000 write cycle will take 100,000 x 64 = 6.4 million days of usage at 1 GB per day before the limit is reached. This is the equivalent of 6,400,000/365.25 = 17,522 years of usage."
I think you can easily "write" 1GB of data a day if you take into account the underlying memory paging that's going on in the OS. If you're only using this as auxiliary file storage then your example is correct.
RAM drive for the OS, SSD for storage... And dump to/from the SSD at start-up/shutdown ONLY...
I'd call that a "blazin' fast setup", if it wasn't because it's running on a Pentium III....
Okay, so let's assume you write 4 GB worth of data each day, including the swap file/memory paging, etc. It will take 16 days to fill the card. So one ("1") write cycle = 16 days. A 100,000 write cycle will take 100,000 x 16 = 1.6 million days of usage at 4 GB per day before the limit is reached. This is the equivalent of 1,600,000/365.25 = ~4,380 years of usage.
I don't think it'll be dying any time soon?