Re: file systems
On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 5:25 AM, Andrei Popescu
<andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jo, 21 apr 11, 22:10:10, Chris Brennan wrote:
>>
>> You mentioned something about doing this on USB (solid-state?) storage? You
>> might want to also consider reading up on USB's general policy about write
>> few, read many. In a nutshell, most USB devices don't like to be written to
>> many many times (such as a busy *primary* FS). They have a limited
>> shelf-life of writes )wear leveling) before they go bad (I have an OCZ ATV
>> rubber thumb drive that has suffered this.) This is why they tell you
>> defragmenting SSD's is a *VERY* bad idea, you significantly reduce the write
>> ability of the device.[4][5][6]
>
> Defragmenting SSDs should also be unnecessary, since there are no heads
> to move to other regions ;)
>
xor gates burn out though. i think this happens so frequently that the
medium handles this internally. i don't exactly remember though i
think i remember a conversation with some forensics guys about this.
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