On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:54:34 +0100, Stroller wrote: > I have read many people talk about wear of flash memory to be a > problem, but I don't think from anyone who's actually HAD a problem > with it. I have read of many people using it happily for root > filesystems over periods of years.
Some years ago, I had a Crucial flash drive die in a couple of months when the kernel's FAT implementation was updating the FAT on every block write. So it got rather hammered when writing ISO images to it. However, SSDs are not the same as SD cards in that they have wear levelling, so this is far less of an issue. Plus the write wear of drives has improved over the years. -- Neil Bothwick Committee (noun): A life form with six or more legs and no brain.
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