Write Life - the Elephant in the Room... Questions left unanswered...
The write cycles of flash are indeed limited.
The question is: how easy is it to identify the chip & card, yank out a live board, replace the chip, and plug the board back in - while the system is running...
If the write cycles are about the same across all the flash, I would suspect it would run GREAT for a period of time, and then start experiencing simultaneous failures across the chassis.
Another question might be: how many simultaneous boards can one pull (live?) to replace bad chips, when they all start to fail at the same time...
Does Violin have a solution for these basic 6 grade grammar school questions or is this just a government purchase decision where the answer is "no"?
Flash is awesome technology, when used for medium-term storage of high-cycle write loads. I wish the author of this article would have addressed these basic concerns in the article - this read more like a press release from a vendor than a piece of tech news with a discerning writer.