Re: using a thumb drive as a partition.

2021-07-23 Thread Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss
Your device access will be slow. Using a USB3 device on a USB2 port is as bad as just using a USB2 device. If the computer doesn't have any USB3 port, you might want to buy one to fit your available [ISA/PCI/PCIe] slot. SteveT Michael via PLUG-discuss said on Fri, 23 Jul 2021 16:52:49 -0400 >I

Re: using a thumb drive as a partition.

2021-07-23 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
this is something mike will have to determine, I find even in good USB 3 drives the write performance leaves something to be desired, But I am spoiled On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 1:53 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > It will be a USB3 drive but the port mig

Re: using a thumb drive as a partition.

2021-07-23 Thread Michael via PLUG-discuss
It will be a USB3 drive but the port might only be a 2 if that! On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 4:50 PM Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss wrote: > > Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss said on Fri, 23 Jul 2021 08:19:35 > -0700 > > > > > >i still find their write performance leaves something to be desired s

Re: using a thumb drive as a partition.

2021-07-23 Thread Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss
Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss said on Fri, 23 Jul 2021 08:19:35 -0700 > >i still find their write performance leaves something to be desired so >i would test it out and see if it meets your needs. If the thumb drive is USB3 and it's connected to a USB3 port, the write performance leaves a

Re: using a thumb drive as a partition.

2021-07-23 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
Flash media by nature still has a limit to the number of writes they can make. but wear leveling is pretty smart nowadays. and if you underprovision your drive by say 5-10% (IE leave it raw space without a file system) you can increase this. Most are designed with this concept in mind so it is more

Re: using a thumb drive as a partition.

2021-07-21 Thread Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss
I use many of mine here as a write once and read many. Basically, my entire multimedia library (all legally acquired of course) sits on 5 256 GB drives. They are all USB thumb drives and the only time they are accessed is when I want to play a movie or music locally. They are almost as fast as a

Re: using a thumb drive as a partition.

2021-07-21 Thread Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss
Flash memory indeed has limited write cycles. However, by now it is unlikely that you'll encounter this within the normal lifetime of such a card. Usually, this is in the order of 100,000 write cycles today and SD cards include circuitry to manage wear-leveling, that is, spread out writes over the

using a thumb drive as a partition.

2021-07-21 Thread Michael via PLUG-discuss
Have they fixed the number of writes a drive cN TAKE? OR ELSE HOW MANY WRITES CAN an sd card take. I want to use it for LFS -- :-)~MIKE~(-: --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your