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Hello Alan McKinnon, |
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> It's only a matter of time and relates to how flash devices work. After |
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> many many writes to the same storage cell, it degrades. The good ones |
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> are rated to about 100,000 writes per cell. The cheap and nasty ones |
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> can be as low as 10,000 writes. You would be amazed how quickly 50,000 |
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> writes can happen to the same cell when used as swap for example |
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It's worse than that. The vfat driver updates the FAT after every 4K |
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block (or at least it did a few kernel versions ago), so copying a large |
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file can result in tens of thousands of writes to the same location. I |
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broke a GB stick in a couple of months by writing 700MB files to it. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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I don't have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem. |
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