Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 12:30:37 +0200 From: Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Parking disk drive heads Message-ID: <200508201230.37976.hselasky@c2i.net> In-Reply-To: <20050820031508.A73274@odysseus.silby.com> References: <200508200359.j7K3xoHF015718@ambrisko.com> <20050820031508.A73274@odysseus.silby.com>
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On Saturday 20 August 2005 10:18, Mike Silbersack wrote: > On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Doug Ambrisko wrote: > > Flash is nice but it has some issues. Atleast dropping it isn't one! > > > > Doug A. > > I'd be really happy if I could get a USB flash drive to last more than 8 > months. Luckily, I started weekly backups after the first failure. That > helped a lot when the second failure happened. > Flash drives does usually not last more than 10000 writes, per bit, from what I know. Probably you need some kind of special file-system that moves the files around as the write quoute gets used up! Eventually the size of the disk will reach zero, and you have to move the files elsewhere :-) But this is probably off topic. --HPS
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