According to this:
http://www.storagesearch.com/ssdmyths-endurance.html

It doesn't seem to be an issue... all mechanical disks would have failed many times before any solid state disks (based on flash memory) would show any fatigue...

That is: The flash itself is not wearing out. Of course if there is any design fault in SD interface itself that just can not cope with high I/O... that's another story?

A friend showed me a study the other day demonstrating that flash was wearing out far sooner than conventional drives. No link offhand, sorry.

The card is working on the HTC Universal : http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...40#post1549440

Newegg has now Patriot card in their listing:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820220254

Price $154.99.

ETA 10/5.

If only I had a real need for more space...

Greetings everyone.
I'm new to the forums.
FYI I purchased from eCost two 16gb SDHC cards a few weeks ago for about $179 plus a mail in rebate for $20 from Patriot. Received cards today and they work great. Very fast file transfers and movies seem much smoother than the 8gb Transcends I had. I had a slight problem the other day with one of the Transcend 8gb cards. I erased several gigs of movies using my Mac while card was connected to N800. It would only let me access 2 of the 8 gigs afterwards. I had to go and put the card in an sdhc capable digital camera and reformat the card as a Fat32. Solved the problem with the Transcend 8gb card. I think you should only delete memory from the sdhc cards from the N800 menu. It might help avoid destroying cards and could explain why so many of these cards fail. I had a similar problem with a Sony Duo Pro card about a year ago and as soon as I reformated it in Sony camera it was back to full storage capacity.
HTH
Cheers,
Dan

Glad you got good results from the 16gb cards, that clears up a few uncertainties.

My 4gb card was destroyed and I had never used anything but the N800 to delete stuff when I had the problem, but hopefully that is now solved. A few weeks of success isn't llong enough to tell, but it's still good to hear.

Just got a email notice, Newegg has them in stock.

It all depends what you do with it, if you're not re-writing to the card and just using it for accumulating files that you never delete, then flash is far more durable than an HDD. As cards get bigger this kind of scenario is more likely, although if video downloads become more popular that wipes out the advantage of large cards..

Agreed, krisse. But it's safe to say that the new hard drives with huge flash cache are being used as typical hard drives, ergo LOTS of rewriting.