P2 card usage, serial #,age, etc

[monkeyking]

Can anyone decipher P2 card serial numbers? I've got 5 sequentially numbered 4gb cards that were purchased together and one used one . I know the history of the first 5 cards since I've shot with them. Is there a way to dig up metadata to reveal how many cycles in/out that a p2 card has experienced?
My recently acquired card's serial number starts with ABC...... whereas my other 5 start with ACC...... Does that mean the ABC.... card was manufactured before the
ACC..... cards ?
Just wondering how to monitor a card's usage.


chris

 

[monkeyking]

IOW
How can you differentiate btw a card that has been used hundreds of times vs. a P2 card that has seen very little usage?

 

[nsoltz]

But does it really make any difference since the card is solid state?

Ned Soltz

 

[THoff]

The card has a limited number of write cycles, but I don't expect very many (if any) people to bump into it.

There's no way I know of to get the write/format cycles.

 

[SurJones]

That # if I am right is 100,000. good luck using all 100,000 reformats

 

[DelRio]

You are right, up to 100,000 times.