> "Bruce Martin" <brucem@cat.co.za>  wrote:
>  > Slightly off topic here: how many times can you read and write these CF
>  > cards before you have to throw them out? What constitues as one write - does
>  > it buffer a whole lot of small writes and do them at one time?
>
> I believe the way it works is 'each bit is rated to 1 million write cycles'.

IMHO flash memories can resist up to 1000 writes.

with "excellent" FAT filesystem it won't be much in FAT area...

after this you probably need to move it's first partition little ahead amd
use it again with little less space.