Quote: Originally Posted by Marsupial
As far as I understood, the flash IDE drives are not as bad as the CF cards.
if by "bad" you mean how many write cycles they can perform before they stop working... then there is no difference.
All of these devices CF / Flash Hard drive / Pen disks / etc. all use the same flash memory chips inside from the same group of manufacturers. Generally flash is rated for 100,000 write cycles, however it is not uncommon for them to far exceed that!
I remember one device that I created that I was accidentally writing to the flash on a continual basis, the flash lasted about 6 seconds!
Oops!
Chris