Well then, may be the ISOs used had some secret flash suicide code which made
any flash memory cell commit harakiri as soon as the content is stored inside
the cell ?
;-)
Really Chris, how much more prove does one need beside running the script
himself on any flash-media of choice to find out when it breaks ?
My budget is way too limited to buy a 16 or 32 GB micro SD card of a higher
quality simply to try to shred it. Otherwise I would just step over the
street to the PC store, grab a quality micro SD card and try to break it.
In the end it doesn't matter if you fill up the flash media with data from
/dev/zero, /dev/urandom or any ISO. What matters is that you do a full write
to the flash media and verify the written data any time. I think the real art
is to tell how long any flash-based stuff out there will really last based on
observations like 16k full write cycles killed the media.
