Re: Unable to use a new USB drive.
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 05:27:29PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 16:15 -0500, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 09:12:07AM -0500, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
> > >
> > > The second drive is testing out fine -- so fat. I did a mke2fs -c -c on
> > > it, and it's been checking bad blocks ever sing Friday. First writing
> > > blocks full of 0xaa, then reading them back, then repeating with -x55
> > > and 0xff ... that's as far as I saw when I went to bed Saturday night.
> > > I presume it went on to try 0x00 next.... It takes a long long time.
> > > So far, no problems found.
> >
> > Yes, a long time. Took about 40 hours.
>
> A USB stick of Flash... they only have a FINITE number of times they can
> be written to. Yes it is quite high a number, but think in 40 hours how
> many times does the format write to a location during verify?
Four.
> Too many
> times for a device like flash.
>
> In effect, you have tremendously reduced the useful life of your device.
> --
> greg@gregfolkert.net
Except that is really was a 500GB USB disk drive, not flash.
-- hendrik
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