Matthew Burgess wrote these words on 08/02/09 05:24 CST: > The only issue I can think of is the number of write cycles that a full > LFS build will incur, which may wear the USB drive out (assuming it's a pen > drive style, not just a hard drive in a USB enclosure). The build will > obviously be slow relative to building on a IDE/SATA/SCSI drive due to the > slower seek/write times on USB drives.
What exactly is there to wear out in flash memory? Here's some info I dug up: USB flash drives allow reading, writing, and erasing of data, with some allowing 1 million write/erase cycles in each cell of memory: if 100 uses per day, 1 million cycles could span 10,000 days or over 27 years. Some devices level the usage by auto-shifting activity to underused sections of memory. -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.25] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686] 09:14:00 up 26 days, 21:42, 1 user, load average: 0.43, 0.15, 0.10 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
