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Solid State Drives to work with Rockbox?
soap:
--- Quote from: piquadrat on January 21, 2007, 05:02:59 PM ---AFAIK, these discs need a special file system that prevents extensive write operations to single sectors.
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On all modern flash chips cards/drives write-averaging is taken care of by the controller, transparent to the end-user, regardless of what filesystem is used.
Not to mention the MTBF for said drive is 2,000,000 hours, vs 300,000 for a standard 1.8" HD.
fjf:
This is getting interesting:
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5645
http://theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36841
saratoga:
--- Quote from: piquadrat on January 21, 2007, 05:02:59 PM ---For instance, the file access table from a FAT32 partition is read and written very often, which would destroy the associated sectors on the SSD pretty fast.
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Have you considered that the many flash based mp3 players use fat without issue? Ipod Nano, Sansa, etc. AFAIK wear leveling has been a standard feature in most flash modules for a while now, so explicit software support for it is unnecessary.
Jakeworld:
So would this feasibly be able to be applied? I think this would be an excellent modification, but would something like an iPod natively support such a modification, or would additional code be required in order to simply run the device? This would indeed be an awesome change if it is indeed possible.
xlarge:
It will work.
They will be drop in replacements for the old harddrives. :)
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