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sniffs · 10-13-05, 02:15 PM

Ok, with any version of WM prior to 5.0, we had programs installing to ram and SD cards and BIS, personally I never installed anything in BIS, it all went to SD cards.

Ram can be written to over and over without a limitation of its write life.

SD Cards I think may have a write life, but they are so cheap they can be easily replaced

BIS has a write life and after that it becomes useless (correct me if I'm wrong)

Now that WM5.0 uses persistant storage, are we going to have a unit that in 2-3 years time is going to be a dead unit that cant be written to anymore and will need to be replaced?

As it is now, if an SD card fails, you get another one and pop it into your unit and off you go, if the memory in your unit fails, chances are its soldered to the breadboard and cant be replaced.. any thoughts on this?

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sniffs Aximsite Rookie Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 73 Device: LG325 Carrier: Sprint Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	WM5 limiting the life on our devices? Ok, with any version of WM prior to 5.0, we had programs installing to ram and SD cards and BIS, personally I never installed anything in BIS, it all went to SD cards. Ram can be written to over and over without a limitation of its write life. SD Cards I think may have a write life, but they are so cheap they can be easily replaced BIS has a write life and after that it becomes useless (correct me if I'm wrong) Now that WM5.0 uses persistant storage, are we going to have a unit that in 2-3 years time is going to be a dead unit that cant be written to anymore and will need to be replaced? As it is now, if an SD card fails, you get another one and pop it into your unit and off you go, if the memory in your unit fails, chances are its soldered to the breadboard and cant be replaced.. any thoughts on this?