Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2017 20:11:04 +0100 From: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@getmail.no> To: freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: how to measure microsd wear Message-ID: <20170121201104.8e7084e0db159771d2f88402@getmail.no> In-Reply-To: <1d757b3b-67d2-b29b-ba01-89b462b0019f@denninger.net> References: <16821b7c-e300-97fc-36e5-a508b22c21b8@zyxst.net> <1485021485.34897.185.camel@freebsd.org> <1d757b3b-67d2-b29b-ba01-89b462b0019f@denninger.net>
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On Sat, 21 Jan 2017 12:12:17 -0600 Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net> wrote: > On 1/21/2017 11:58, Ian Lepore wrote: > > On the plus side, most of what you see in the way of warnings and scare > > stories about wearing out sd cards is pure BS. I've got systems here > > that have been running for literally years on the same sdcard, and that > > card is being used for swap, and routine data storage like syslog (on > > an embedded system that logs status and progress pretty much > > continuously 24x7 for years). I've seen a few sd cards die over the > > years, but I've never been able to say it was because of how much was > > written to them (indeed, the dead ones I've got weren't in service long > > before they died). > > > This, however, is total nonsense. To be fair, except for the first sentence, it is Ian's experience. Just because his experience is different from your own doesn't mean that either of them are wrong. Just different. -- Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@getmail.no>
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