Re: Compactflash cards dying?

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In article <1044232591.545.8.camel@sonja>,
Daniel Egger <degger@fhm.edu> wrote:
>CF has limited write cycles. A few hundred if you're lucky.
>And depending on the type of flash it's quite likely that every
>changed byte will result in a whole block being written back.

Then why if I google for 'compact flash write cycles' all specs
of flash cards I found say 100000 write cycles at least ?

Mike.

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