On Feb 6, 2009, at 5:45 PM, Simon Royal wrote:
> > Hi > > I have an Iomega 128MB Mini USB drive which I have had for about 10 > years, > it is still going strong, it has outlived many other USB drives. > > Since the move to OSX (back in 10.1) it has been formatted to HFS+ > and it > is used every day. > > Don't see how HFS+ can shorten the life of a drive. > > Simon > > --- >> >> dont format flash with a journaling filesystem >> > Repeated Re-rites of data as the 'journaling' routines complete Disk Access. Chuck D. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
