Hello Kalus, Klaus Knopper: > From my own experience, I was not able to kill an usual USB flash disk > or SD card by "excessive" writes yet. I tried hard, really, even with > the mount -o sync option. The german c't magazine has also run write > tests over a year with millions of writes, and was not able to kill a > single block.
Just out of curiosity, how did you make your "writes"? It may be good to use direct-io for such tests, which makes buffer cached disabled. J. R. Okajima ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d
