[H-GEN] Flash drives and wear levelling: user experiences?

[Brendon Higgins]

Joel Michael wrote (2008-07-31 10:06 pm):
> If you attempt to write 1/2 an entire flash cell, you need to do 2
> read-erase-write cycles, and your overall transfer rate will be cut in
> half.  1/4 of an entire flash cell, you need to do 4 read-erase-write
> cycles, and you'll get 1/4 of the speed.  It's a linear relationship.

I was confused until I figured out you were actually talking about writing a 
stream of data in fractional chunks of flash cell sizes. Very interesting.

Peace,
Brendon