Re: SCSI CompactFlash success

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"Jason Whorton" <jason at microxl.com> wrote in message
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> Hi, Bill.  Yes, I am familiar with them.  I forgot a smiley face.  :-)
The
> bearings will never go out.  One will never hear the heads slapping around
> searching for data, etc.
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> Thanks,
> Jason Whorton - A+ certified technician

True that, but I'm told that there are only so many read/write operations
allowed to a bit before that part of the card fails and becomes unusable.
Is that true?  About how many operations does it take?  I'm really attracted
to the idea of a CF drive on my IIgs, but not if running apps off it
regularly will cause it to die in a year from overuse.  My ancient SCSI
drives are still doing just fine, moving parts and all.

What is the MTF for a heavily-used CF card?

Vector - Alumnus, Crazy-Go-Nuts University