Hey all,
I'm using a GRE-500 and I've been thinking about something lately. My method of scanning is a likely little bizarre to most, so I tend to write to my memory more often than most do. I don't always scan - I'm not always into it. This time of year I spend most of my time outdoors and with the kids so I don't have it on all that much. The winter is when I do most my scanning, so it's not unusual for me to turn it off in March and not start it back up until November or December. Because of this, especially in my area lately, radio system upgrades and changes force me to update nearly every frequency I monitor when I "get back into it". Instead of downloading the entire RR database into my scanner, I like to set the scanner up to find talk groups that I can pick up and I look them up and enter them into Win500. Everyday for a while, I'll get a few new ones, enter them in, then write them to the scanner. (I've been too lazy to manually enter.)
So - how long can I expect to do this before I get bad memory blocks? I'm familiar with flash memory and am aware that it does have a limited life. I've been using flash drives for years and I've never had one go bad from use. I've dropped a few and had one fly out of my pack on my motorcycle before (don't ask) and that's usually bad news. I still have a 512 meg flash drive sitting right here from 2004 that still works great. I've stumbled across a couple of threads discussing this about scanner flash memory, but haven't really seen any input on what the expected life may be. I'm not sure if flash memory is just flash memory or if there's something different about the scanner memory. What's been others' experiences?
I think from now on I'll be entering manually when feasible. Just have to pull the manual out and refresh on how to do it.
I'm using a GRE-500 and I've been thinking about something lately. My method of scanning is a likely little bizarre to most, so I tend to write to my memory more often than most do. I don't always scan - I'm not always into it. This time of year I spend most of my time outdoors and with the kids so I don't have it on all that much. The winter is when I do most my scanning, so it's not unusual for me to turn it off in March and not start it back up until November or December. Because of this, especially in my area lately, radio system upgrades and changes force me to update nearly every frequency I monitor when I "get back into it". Instead of downloading the entire RR database into my scanner, I like to set the scanner up to find talk groups that I can pick up and I look them up and enter them into Win500. Everyday for a while, I'll get a few new ones, enter them in, then write them to the scanner. (I've been too lazy to manually enter.)
So - how long can I expect to do this before I get bad memory blocks? I'm familiar with flash memory and am aware that it does have a limited life. I've been using flash drives for years and I've never had one go bad from use. I've dropped a few and had one fly out of my pack on my motorcycle before (don't ask) and that's usually bad news. I still have a 512 meg flash drive sitting right here from 2004 that still works great. I've stumbled across a couple of threads discussing this about scanner flash memory, but haven't really seen any input on what the expected life may be. I'm not sure if flash memory is just flash memory or if there's something different about the scanner memory. What's been others' experiences?
I think from now on I'll be entering manually when feasible. Just have to pull the manual out and refresh on how to do it.
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