[Shop-talk] OT flash drives

[Jeff Scarbrough]

On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 2:45 PM Steven Trovato via Shop-talk <
shop-talk at autox.team.net> wrote:

> Why is that?  At first glance, I would think that something with no
> moving parts would be more reliable than something with moving parts,
> if both are manufactured to the same standard.


Flash memory has a limited number of read-write cycles.  It's usually a
large number, but the process is inherently riskier than magnetic memory
(or so I'm told).

Modern hard drives park the heads when it's not in operation, so if the
drive isn't spinning, it's difficult to damage the media short of a long
drop or submersion.
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