On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 07:11:58AM -0600, Yves Dorfsman spake thusly: > Would you trust a drive that fails on write ? > What if it started to fail in the middle of writing a block ? Or it could > write a journal entry but not the actual data, etc... ?
Of course not. But a flash drive will remap the bad sector and go on. And you can be warned that this happened. So you will know that your drive is dying and be able to replace it before any writes fail hard. Unlike SATA despite our best efforts with SMART which so far has not been at all useful in predicting failure. -- Tracy Reed http://tracyreed.org
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