Hello,
I am in the process of developing my own aggregated blacklist gathered from several MikroTik routers.
As far as I know, writing to the router’s flash/storage too often is not a good thing for it’s longevity.
The question is: how often is too often?
At the moment I am thinking of aggregating the list only once a day, but it will be helpful to do it once every hour.
The write amount will be around ~1 MB per run.
Thank you.
Well, some quick back-of-the-envelope calculations say that if you write once per hour, then you’re writing 24MB per day. Now let’s assume you have a 64MB flash with 32MB free, so let’s assume that your overwriting the 32MB free only, and that means you’re overwriting the 32MB every 1.3 days. If the flash is rated at 10,000 erasures per cell and we assume perfect wear-leveling, then you should hit that limit in 7500 days. If you cut that in half, it’s still 10 years before failure and I hope you’re not using the same router in 10 years.
I’m sure others can point out where I’m horribly and completely wrong here.