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    Flash memory and filesystem, wear levelling is an answer

    Reviving this topic with an update. I just read an interesting article about SSDs where it is mentioned that hardware wear levelling just sucks at wear levelling and will not prevent data from silently becoming corrupted (which explains a lot of the data corruption issues I experienced with my...
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    Sales Attention: Anybody with ordering issues

    Re: Attention: Anybody with ording issues *fixed* for the sake of being coherent with the title ^^ Chip, we don't thank you enough for all you have done/are doing for this project so thanks !
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    Sales Re-order Emails Going Out Now

    I just received mine 2 minutes ago. I knew about paypal but wasn't aware of this kind of problem. Can someone explain the why behind having to refund and then order again ? Just read a previous comment about people not telling they received their refund. I received mine yesterday, yes...
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    Release I understand this pandora is a linux device...

    It will be merged eventually and hopeful get some attention.
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    Release I understand this pandora is a linux device...

    ... so let see how it can let us administer our daily dose of linux. I hereby announce the topic to talk about "software to make the pandora an ideal device for your linux habits and practical ways to use the pandora in a linux environment" (name subject to change) open ! I'm opening this...
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    Flash memory and filesystem, wear levelling is an answer

    It's good news to read that all SD cards include wear levelling, and it's quite a good idea to use a SD card for swap and /home to minimize use of internal memory. About firefox, as I intend to *not* use it, I hope that there will be another web browser available on the pandora.
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    Flash memory and filesystem, wear levelling is an answer

    Can you define "excessive writes", "cause as the power user I am, I do intend to make intensive use of the flash memory which includes a lot of writing. It took about a year for my 1GB, life warranty, usb flash memory to wear off, it was older technology and this has certainly improved since...
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    Flash memory and filesystem, wear levelling is an answer

    I'm currently looking into the matter of choosing the right SDHC card for my pandora and I have some concern: we know that flash memory is made out of several individual segement which can only deal with a limited number of write cycles and when a particular segment has ran out of cycles the...
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    Sales Wondering about SD offered during preorder

    Thanks for the info Etinin.
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    Sales Wondering about SD offered during preorder

    I pre-ordered a pandora but in the craze of the time I just picked the pandora to be sure to have one, planning to maybe add to my order later. We are now later and the order page is offline so I can't find info about the additional items that were offered along with the pandora. I guess I can...
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