On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 09:13:41PM -0400, Edward Ned Harvey spake thusly: > Sorry, but you're way off. Given the specs you mentioned, you would need to > write 2Megabytes to blow the drive, if only you write a single byte > 2,000,000 times in the same location.
Write balancing in the drive firmware on any decent drive will prevent you from writing to the same location 2 million times. -- Tracy Reed http://tracyreed.org
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