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Lifespan of CF card
« on: January 12, 2008, 08:50:05 PM »
I'm wondering how many times one can record and then reformat a CF card. I have a Transcend 8gb card that I've reformatted 50 times. So far, so good, but don't want to get burned.
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Re: Lifespan of CF card
« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2008, 09:12:53 PM »
i don't know about reformatting but most are rated for 10-15k insertions
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Re: Lifespan of CF card
« Reply #2 on: June 20, 2008, 11:48:16 AM »
heh heh you said insertions, heh heh
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Re: Lifespan of CF card
« Reply #3 on: June 20, 2008, 12:53:04 PM »
Transcend claims they can handle 1 million write cycles. You could probably format 10 times a day for the next 250 years or so.
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Re: Lifespan of CF card
« Reply #4 on: June 26, 2008, 11:16:24 AM »
Transcend claims they can handle 1 million write cycles. You could probably format 10 times a day for the next 250 years or so.
But if you count each recording as a write and each format as a write (which is an oversimplification of what actually happens), you're down to about 137 years. I think it safe to assume that some cells will be subject to premature entropy. So I'd probably round it down to an even 100 years and call it good (which also happens to be the service life estimate I read somewhere for CF cards).

 But, if you remove the card each time you format it (for 137 years) that's 499k insertions. That's well beyond the fatigue limit for insertion/removal. The connectors should wear out long before the memory does if you take it out of the recorder every time you read it.

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Re: Lifespan of CF card
« Reply #5 on: June 26, 2008, 12:31:46 PM »
so the short answer is forever?
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Re: Lifespan of CF card
« Reply #6 on: June 26, 2008, 12:53:40 PM »
By then you will be able to sneak in your whole rig under your pinky fingernail.
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Re: Lifespan of CF card
« Reply #7 on: June 26, 2008, 01:23:47 PM »
or maybe forgo the whole rig and upload to your PC via your organic memory bank...  Better lay off the herb if you want lossless!
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Re: Lifespan of CF card
« Reply #8 on: June 26, 2008, 01:30:50 PM »
thats only if music is still legal by then.
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Re: Lifespan of CF card
« Reply #9 on: June 26, 2008, 01:34:28 PM »
By then you will be able to sneak in your whole rig under your pinky fingernail.
LMAO. That's where I'll have the surgeons implant my "record" button. "Screw your metal detector, sonny, that's just my pacemaker!"

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Re: Lifespan of CF card
« Reply #10 on: June 26, 2008, 01:56:03 PM »
By then you will be able to sneak in your whole rig under your pinky fingernail.
LMAO. That's where I'll have the surgeons implant my "record" button. "Screw your metal detector, sonny, that's just my pacemaker!"

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Re: Lifespan of CF card
« Reply #11 on: June 26, 2008, 01:56:49 PM »
laugh my ass off
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Re: Lifespan of CF card
« Reply #12 on: June 26, 2008, 02:48:59 PM »
Here I go again, hope I'm not bothering you with my never ending search for the meaning of those
mysterious - to me - letters.
What's LMAO?  :hmmm:

I hardly blame you. what the hell does QTF mean?
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Re: Lifespan of CF card
« Reply #13 on: June 26, 2008, 02:51:54 PM »
quoted for truth usually.

go study up, there will be a test later...

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Re: Lifespan of CF card
« Reply #14 on: June 26, 2008, 04:04:11 PM »
quoted for truth usually.

go study up, there will be a test later...

http://www.urbandictionary.com/

Yes, that's right. I've learned a slightly different meaning  :yack: :yack: :yack:
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