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Max read/writes to an SD card [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What's the life expectancy of an SD card? I have been told this before that an SD card has a max of 10k writes and 100k reads, but I can't seem to find any information on ...
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Is an external hard disk hard disk necessary for not over-using the sd on a Raspberry PI? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What’s the life expectancy of an SD card? I recently got my raspberry PI and I was thinking about using it as a torrent box. For that, would you advise to connect an external ...
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Can I somehow revive unrecognizable (micro) SD cards? [duplicate]

I am unsure as to whether to ask here, or on software recommendations. I have a box full of micro SD cards, which I have used over the years for Raspberry Pis. I was searching through them for one to ...
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What medium should be used for long term, high volume, data storage (archival)?

This question was inspired by https://superuser.com/questions/374386/how-to-store-and-preserve-lots-of-data. There have been other similar questions, but none with the same criteria. This is two ...
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Booting Linux off USB pendrives

Booting a Linux system off USB pendrives is one of my favorite things. On a laptop we have the following advantages, The hard disk drive can be shutdown and that reduces power consumption (hdparm) ...
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Can I use something like the SSD TRIM command on a SD card?

SSD flash hard drives have started to support TRIM in order to avoid the slowdown that occurs after a while. How do I do something similar on a SD card ? Like reformating the SD card, but at a ...
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How many times can SD card be overwritten and how to find out the actual number of overwrite cycles

How to find out overall health of an SD card? In particular: Can I detect the number of remaining overwrite cycles? Or the number of actually performed overwrite cycles on particular SD card? Whats ...
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What would be the down side(s) to backup archival via SD cards?

While doing some photography reading, i came across some support for archiving photos, videos on SD Cards. The process looked like: Fill up SD Card with DSLR Share/publish any choice items via the PC ...
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How much does it wear an SD card to be frequently removed/reinserted?

My digital camera (a Sony α55) stores photos on an SD card. When I want to transfer these to my computer (a mid-2010 MacBook Pro), I have two options: use the USB cable to connect the camera to the ...
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Can I save a VM Image on an SD Card?

I'm working with a VM Image in VirtualBox. Can I save it to an SD card and boot it from there? Can I save two machines on the SD Card? Will VirtualBox put all files, related to the Images on that SD ...
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Does reading an SD card a thousand times reduce its life?

I know writing affect SDCard but I don't know about intense reading
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SD Card as a long term archive media using redundancy of data

For me, the chief fear of using SD cards for backup is reliability rather than storage capacity. SD cards are known to offer relatively high storage for little expense, compared to CDs and DVDs. ...
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Is there anyway to simulate Windows 8 running off a microSD card? (Limit the I/O speed)

I would like to install and boot Windows from a microSD card using the Nifty MiniDrive, however, before I pay for the device and microSD card I would like to see the performance differences between ...
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Can software operation damage an SD card?

My SD card has a broken boot sector and the tools I've tried say that it's not repairable (I've tried TestDisk, DriveRestore Pro and Easeus Partition Recovery). The card was in my Android phone and ...
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What is the life expectancy of an SD card, in terms of years? [closed]

PREFACE: I would appreciate answers accompanied by facts and references. While I respect pure opinions, they don't seem to comply with the rigorous requirements of superuser.com forum. How long is the ...
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