On Sunday 16 March 2008, Jan Seeger wrote: > Yeah, it's the same here. I read an article in the german computer > magazine c't, and they said that they have tried to break USB sticks > with repeated writes, but have never succeeded (I think they ran > 10000 writes, but I could be wrong).
That test is probably insufficient. Somebody actually did this test on lkml some time ago, and found that the better devices were rated to 100,000 writes to the same cell and the el-cheapo jobs were somewhere around 10,000. IOW, the manufacturer of a cheapie says it should cope with 10,000 writes *at least*, so in practice you could expect more. I'd start to believe a test that does >1,000,000 writes to the same cell before drawing any conclusions. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
