On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 06:58:46PM +0000, 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.
> 
> I have seen many times, USB and SD cards start silently returning corrupt 
> data. You waste a bunch of time figuring out where corrupt data is coming 
> from, and then discover that if you literally read the same file from the USB 
> drive more than once, it comes out differently. So you throw out the USB 
> drive, and wish you could get your data back. (And the last several hours you 
> spent debugging).
> 
> 
> Anyone know anything?

Have you looked for "USB SSD"?

-dsr-
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