OK, I have found my first delinquent for the test. A 1GB USB stick I once
received during a Red Hat event. The device itself is listed as:
ID 0204:6025 Chipsbank Microelectronics Co., Ltd CBM2080 Flash drive
controller
I hacked together a cruel bash script which writes roughly 940 MB data
generated from /dev/urandom from a RAM disk to the USB stick. Then it
verifies the MD5 checksum, deletes the file at the USB stick and starts
again. Since hacking together the script this noon I have completed around
160 write cycles. So we speak about 150-160 GB data which have been written
to the USB stick and still no sign of corruption. The test will continue at
least for another day.
After some polishing I will publish the script here and anyone can decide if
he/she evaluates the durability of flash media by his/herself.
