<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">My understanding of flash drive wear out is that it’s not as bad as it seems. While the write count is in the thousands, it takes a long time to get there. The flash file system spreads the writes - even rewrites out to even out the writes on the media. Let’s say you have a number that you increment as a counter. Each time it is rewritten it is written in a different place, making the drives pretty robust. Another thing, when a location eventually dies, the previous data is still there, just becomes read only, so the data can bee retrieved. <div><br></div><div>Peace,</div><div>Pat<br><br><div dir="ltr">Pat Horne <div>We support Habitat for Humanity</div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Mar 14, 2020, at 1:57 PM, Jeff Scarbrough via Shop-talk <shop-talk@autox.team.net> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 2:45 PM Steven Trovato via Shop-talk <<a href="mailto:shop-talk@autox.team.net">shop-talk@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Why is that? At first glance, I would think that something with no <br>
moving parts would be more reliable than something with moving parts, <br>
if both are manufactured to the same standard.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>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).</div><div><br></div><div>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. </div></div></div>
<span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span></span><br><span>Shop-talk@autox.team.net</span><br><span>Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html</span><br><span>Suggested annual donation $12.96</span><br><span>Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/shop-talk http://autox.team.net/archive</span><br><span></span><br><span>Unsubscribe/Manage: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/shop-talk/patintexas@icloud.com</span><br><span></span><br></div></div></body></html>