[Trisquel-users] Antwort: Flash drive life-span and test script

[holger . beetz]

I did not really want to continue with this topic but post my "results" as  
well as the test script I used.

You can bet that there are at least two a dozens of variants in order to  
execute such a "stress test".

No matter what testing approach you choose, the weak point is still how to  
match the data gathered with real live. My stick (1GB) got written with a  
data volume of around 1.7TB. I can not really estimate what lifetime I could  
expect from a media which achieves at least lets say 2TB data being written  
to the stick. My 16GB san disk I use with Trisquel 5.5 is still happy. So is  
my 4GB CF card from my Debian box.

Thanks for making your own thoughts and posting your script. I choose to make  
writes to a file system rather than the block device because I wanted to make  
my test as close to the daily use as possible.

I will end my experiments now. If Chris wants to step in with further  
evaluation on compact SD cards I would be interested by the results. For now  
I will simply trust on my USB stick as I would any HDD.