On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 5:25 AM, Andrei Popescu <andreimpope...@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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/banlktim0xxbr46a9ezjawxcush0m_g0...@mail.gmail.com
