Given that not all SD/SDHC/SDXC cards do wear leveling, that it's pretty much impossible to tell whether a specific card is doing wear leveling, that an 8GB card is only worth a few $/€/£, that the card should last quite some time anyway, and that the replacement card will cost even less when yours ...

Hello, First post here, and brand new Pi user. First impression: promising hardware, but slow boot time. If it was possible to boot an Asus EEE in 5 seconds in 2008 ( link ), it must be possible to do better than the 30+ seconds I'm seeing on this. First step: install bootchart sudo apt-get install ...