In regular hard drives and SSD's, they have FEC chips or equivalent (forward
error correction) so whenever the platters return a bit error, that error
should be noticed and the corrupt data should not reach the OS.
I have seen many times, USB and SD cards start silently returning corrupt data.
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 06:58:46PM +, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote:
> In regular hard drives and SSD's, they have FEC chips or equivalent (forward
> error correction) so whenever the platters return a bit error, that error
> should be noticed and the corrupt data should not reach the OS.
Hi Ed,
There's some good information here:
https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-14/materials/us-14-Oh-Reverse-Engineering-Flash-Memory-For-Fun-And-Benefit-WP.pdf
Basically though, USB drives are cheap, and they're frequently disconnected
from power for extended periods of time, plus the flash control
> From: Dan Ritter [mailto:d...@randomstring.org]
>
> Have you looked for "USB SSD"?
Those are very good, thanks for the suggestion. :-)
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