Comment More recently MFG'd flash has more writes. (Score 1) 357
For ~3 years now ive been using a swapfile on a 2GB Kingston micro-mmc card with my nokia tablet (only 64meg ram)
after running an 8Meg file as swap i got a scare maybe 6mo back when i was unable to write a new file to the card - I thought, I'd finally done it: id burned through my writability -
after some close inspection though, i'd just hit the FAT file-per-directory limit. oh -ho
Recently ive actually increased the file to 64Meg to swap out more stuff for gaming with large Roms.
Honestly Im amazed the card has lasted as long as it has - considering i thrash the system near-constantly - with my new usage patterns, i'd still estimate the card has another 2 healthy years of service.