Re: mount options to not reduce life of a USB memory stick

To: "H.S." <hs.samix@gmail.com>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: mount options to not reduce life of a USB memory stick
From: Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:24:15 +0900
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On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:16:44PM -0500, H.S. wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On 02/27/2009 04:38 PM, H.S. wrote:
> >> Any suggestion if this can be improved to prolong the life of the memory
> >> stick? Or at least not reduce it on a Debian Testing system?
> > 
> > 1. noatime has the most impact.
> 
> Okay.
> 
> > 2. Modern flash memory lasts much longer than older flash,
> 
> hmm .. wasn't aware of this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wear-levelling

U.S. Patent 6,850,443  Wear leveling techniques for flash EEPROM systems

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