On Fri, 21 May 2010 10:13:33 -0700 Siju George <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 7:11 AM, Marco Peereboom <[email protected]> > wrote > > > > USB sticks primary cause of death is the washing machine and/or > > dryer. Second one probably is sitting out in the sun. > > I have yet to see the USB stick that dies because it was written to. > > > > A bit confusing :-( > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg08923.html > > thanks > > --Siju
It's mornings like this when I wonder why I bother to chew through the restraints. (sigh) This stuff is neither difficult nor confusing if you take the time to learn *just* the basics of how things actually work. 1.) How is data stored? (sectors? pages? ...) 2.) What is a "Partial Storage Failure"? (including "Bad Sectors" and "Write Exhaustion" and similar)? 3.) What is "Storage Allocation" (i.e. internally to the "disk/device")? 4.) What is "Remapping"? 5.) What is "Wear Leveling"? Start with understanding rotating, magnetic hard disk storage, and then figure out the equivalents for flash based storage. -- The OpenBSD Journal - http://www.undeadly.org
