Upgrade H140 to 100GB

[wallisa]

Hi, is there any way, to avoid having to damage my 140 when fitting the adapter? as i really don't like the idea of damaging it by having to break off pins. Oh and just so people no, I got the 80 gb drive from ebay for my 140, from some guy from Hong Kong, and guess what the damb thing has started to fail after 6 months. i've written to the seller and am trying to find out if he can replace it or give a refund. also, I no this is moving off the point, but is there any difference between a solid state drive and a cf card? I read on wikipedia that i can't remember if it was spasificly cf cards or flash in general, but which ever it was that you could only write to it up to 10000 times. Is this true?

[caligula]

solid state is the same as cf etc it is literally just denoting solid state hardware in that it has no moving parts.

There is a write limit but I think it is so high that it is essentially infinite for all practical purposes, certainly when your talkign about the lifespan of an mp3 player, I think the write limit is something more like 100,000 times, there was a thread very recently on here talking about it, and I think the consensus was that ultimately, whatever the limit, it should'nt curtail the life of the device.

[wallisa]

Is it true, that with a ssd device, its more likely you might get data corruption? wikipedia seemed to be suggesting as much, as it said cards did not have faraday cages, as a result they might be affected by outside influences such as abrupt power losses. Also what's the highest capacity card i could get for my 140? and is there any way i can fit an adapter and not have to break my player to make it fit. Sorry for all the questions, but also wikipedia makes mention of high endurance flash storeage, which it suggests has much better write cycles than ordinary flash storeage, does anyone no anything about what that means?