On Sat, 29 May 2010 07:59:31 -0400, David Relson wrote: > Indeed flash drives _do_ have a lifetime. My recollection is that it's > in the thousands of writes if not the hundreds of thousands of writes. > Assuming a life of 1,000 writes and you backup once daily, that's 3 > years of backups. 10,000 writes would be 30 years. Of course if you > backup every hour, 10,000 writes is a year (or so).
You're assuming that each backup only writes once, which is far from true. If you mount a drive with the sync option, the FAT is updated for every block you write, so even a single file can cause thousands of writes to the same location. -- Neil Bothwick Electrocution, n.: Burning at the stake with all the modern improvements.
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