You can often reduce the number of writes dramatically be using some simple
techniques:

1: spread the writes around. don't do all your writes to one location. this
can require some tricky code to figure out what data is the newest.

2: don't write when you don't have to. if the value hasn't changed, don't
write it again.

Bob Ammerman
RAm Systems
(contract development of high performance, high function, low-level
software)

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