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On Sat, 29 May 2010 07:59:31 -0400, David Relson wrote: |
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> Indeed flash drives _do_ have a lifetime. My recollection is that it's |
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> in the thousands of writes if not the hundreds of thousands of writes. |
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> Assuming a life of 1,000 writes and you backup once daily, that's 3 |
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> years of backups. 10,000 writes would be 30 years. Of course if you |
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> backup every hour, 10,000 writes is a year (or so). |
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You're assuming that each backup only writes once, which is far from |
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true. If you mount a drive with the sync option, the FAT is updated for |
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every block you write, so even a single file can cause thousands of |
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writes to the same location. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Electrocution, n.: |
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Burning at the stake with all the modern improvements. |
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