Hi Quentin :) Quentin Harley wrote: > Another thing that might be prohibitive of a production system running > off a USB disk is the number of write cycles a flash memory can handle. > > http://www.getusb.info/what-is-the-life-cycle-of-a-usb-flash-drive/ > > This means that even if you never remove the drive from the port, it > can only handle 10,000 to 100,000 write cycles to a single memory > location. Some locations are almost continuously written to... There > are Linux distributions designed for USB flash that limits disk > writes, but 64 Studio is optimised for performance.
I read about it yesterday and it seems to be, that low-coast sticks like the one I ordered, are only able to do 10,000 write cycles. > Still, a good way to be portable, That's all I want to have, a portable Linux and ... > but do not keep critical data on the "system" USB stick... ... to have a media to transport data from home, to friends, BUT only copies of the data I have on my hard disks. I didn't know about the safeness of USB sticks, but this was something I read about very carefully yesterday. Anyway, it was a good idea to warn me, thank you. Cheers, Ralf
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