[geeks] Flash drive questions

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 11:36:10PM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> A flash drive goes: work work work work *DEAD*, with little warning.

Worse. It goes work work work (bit error) work-somehere-else (more bit errors)
and so on.

For example, a DOS file system would work almost forever if you load it
up an mount it read only. If you copy files to it and keep adding or
expanding them the FAT would become unreadable in a few weeks.

Geoff.
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