Re: [Trisquel-users] Hi everyone

[onpon4]

Just flash drives. Actually, any flash media (also including SD cards, for  
example, and even to a lesser extent most SSDs). What Magic Banana refers to  
is that any given bit on flash media can only be changed so much before it  
becomes useless, so writing to flash media effectively brings it toward the  
end of its life. Constant writes happening all the time are the easiest way  
to make this happen quickly. Cheap flash drives are also more likely to not  
be designed very well with regard to this, since they're used just to  
transfer files, but I don't know that this actually happens in practice.

It's OK to put an OS on flash media (for small portable devices, this is even  
necessary), but you need to be aware of this limitation and should do some  
things to reduce the amount of writes that happen. In particular, you should  
not use a file system with journaling (use ext2 instead), and ideally you  
should disable logging as well. You also ought to not use swap, but if you do  
use swap, you should have a swap file that you turn on only when you need it  
(e.g. to hibernate).