On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:30:47 -0000, Justin Stringfellow <jus...@stringfellow.org.uk> wrote:
> That said, I would have guessed that a decent SSD will be able to > retire/reallocate flaky memory locations before they fail completely. I tend to 'attempt' similar myself. I try to only write to a USB key once per session. So when I plug it in I will copy anything I am working on to a different disk (local - maybe even just /tmp) and will copy the file back up when finished. Rob -- Using Opera M2: http://www.opera.com/mail/ -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wednesday 2009-12-02 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset