Comment How about USB drives? (Score 1) 267
TLC (found in usb drives,
... ) is only 1,000.
Does that also apply to SD and micro-SD cards? Nowadays these Raspberry Pi and comparable devices use micro-SD cards to run the operating system. I have the impression that typical flash cards and USB sticks nowadays use 4 MB erase blocks and the wear leveling on these is probably not very smart, so just a
Actually I have had a couple of sd cards fail on me (one Nokia 2 GB dead on arrival (2008), later on an 8 GB and 2 GB card on other phones in the last two years within a two years after purchase).
On a related note: I wished that manufacturers of those thumb drives and sd cards specified not only sequential read/write throughput but also write throughput for random 4 kB blocks. With many drives, throughput will drop to 20 kB/s. (Source: http://forum.micromart.co.uk/Topic413730.aspx )