From: walt <w41ter@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: File synchronisation utility (searching for/about to program it)
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 07:56:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <h4f6fp$dh6$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7bef1f890907241943k7c6a6fckb79a90816cae280f@mail.gmail.com>
On 07/24/2009 07:43 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote:
> ...I am using a flash drive as a cache, so to speak...
I recently learned that flash drives wear out after about
10,000 write operations, which came as an unpleasant surprise.
Just be aware that you are drastically shortening the life of
a flash drive by writing to it frequently. (or so I've read)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-25 14:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-22 15:09 [gentoo-user] File synchronisation utility (searching for/about to program it) Simon
2009-07-25 2:43 ` Alan E. Davis
2009-07-25 14:56 ` walt [this message]
2009-07-25 17:16 ` [gentoo-user] " Simon
2009-07-26 8:15 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-07-25 17:10 ` [gentoo-user] " Simon
2009-08-01 12:50 ` Mike Kazantsev
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