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>> ...I am using a flash drive as a cache, so to speak... |
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> I recently learned that flash drives wear out after about |
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> 10,000 write operations, which came as an unpleasant surprise. |
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> Just be aware that you are drastically shortening the life of |
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> a flash drive by writing to it frequently. (or so I've read) |
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I think the problem is the number of erases actually (but you erase in |
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order to write, so)... |
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This is number really is more or less, some companies achieve higher |
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number of writes, i think this figure shows a worst-case scenario. |
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Also, it's actually 10k writes per sector... git, as far as i |
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understand, will append new versions to the repository, so it's |
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writing on other sectors and only once. Only if you remove, prune, |
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cleanup the repository, then it would erase... and if you were to |
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format it every day and write to it once a day, (say one new write per |
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sector, on every sector, once per day)... i've quickly calculated the |
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key will last around 27 years. I'll be glad to buy a petabyte usbkey |
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for 10$US in 27 years man! lol |
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Simon |