Knute,

> A 32GB card written to 1000 times is 32TB.  Write 1 million bytes per
> second to the card, 24/7/365 is 31.536 trillion bytes.  So at a million
> bytes per second the card will last a year.  At only a thousand bytes per
> second the card will last a thousand years.

Writes to CD cards are not done per byte, but per block (its not EEPROM, but
Flash).

If such a block is just a half a KByte (a single sectors worth) and assuming
random access writes (a single byte per block) your "thousand years" drops
back to just two ...

Regards,
Rudy Wieser

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