No, I don't think it's just stress; I regularly run an entire Ubuntu OS off my external 160GB for days and days of usage, including backports work, video encoding/copying/transcoding, backing up, you name it.... On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 22:24 +0000, Gustavo Carneiro wrote: > I already tried that in the past and it made no difference. > > I think I must be stress-testing the USB disk a lot more than anyone > else here. Try backing up your home directory to an USB disk using > rdiff-backup! :) >
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