On Wednesday 28 February 2007, Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-amd64] Re: OT: Need advice on usb thumb drive boot': > "P.V.Anthony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 > 13:18:46 +0800: > > From the net, I gather that flash drives have a limited write/erase. > > Is there a way that this can be overcome? > > With modern thumb drives it shouldn't matter that much. They have a > wear- leveling write algorithm that spreads out the writes such that no > one cell gets worn out significantly before the others, and such drives > often last longer than regular drives now days.
In addition, modern flash sectors can be written more than 100000 times. If all you were doing is writing to a single sector over and over, it would still take years to wear it out. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ New GPG Key! Old key expires 2007-03-25. Upgrade NOW!
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