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Myzel394 / Alibi

Use your phone as a dashcam and save the last 30 minutes when you need them.
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Consequences of continuous recording on flash nand health #3

Closed serrq closed 1 year ago

serrq commented 1 year ago

Will continuous recording lead to a shorter longevity of the storage memory?

Might you force your app to always record on different, random sectors? That would help it not write the same tracks over and avoiding to burn them out (hardware side).

Myzel394 commented 1 year ago

To be honest, I don't know much enough about hardware to answer this question. I guess it will not really dramatically reduce the health, as it's "only" audio. As far as I know, Android already produces a lot of files when writing logs for example; I expect the hardware to be quite robust nowadays.

You can compare using Alibi to using any other ordinary Audio Recorder app in the background.

Might you force your app to always record on different, random sectors? That would help it not write the same tracks over and avoiding to burn them out (hardware side).

I have no control over that, I just tell Android to write a file to the cache, the rest is handled internally.

serrq commented 1 year ago

Mine it has been just a consideration, not an indictment of your work. I hope the hardware resists to the "pressure".

Myzel394 commented 1 year ago

Mine it has been just a consideration, not an indictment of your work.

No worries! It's good when people think outside the box! :D

Heath123 commented 1 year ago

Might you force your app to always record on different, random sectors? That would help it not write the same tracks over and avoiding to burn them out (hardware side).

I’m pretty sure the flash chip does that automatically (it’s called wear levelling)