Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Warning regarding a type of USB Flash drive!

2021-03-20 Thread carsten_h
DJanGo wrote: > Honestly USB STICKS are NOT MADE for this. But SD-cards are? The second one I used one time to flash piCorePlayer, then wrote the settings. I think I made three or four updates and that's it. Then it was used three months without writing anything to it. This should be bad for a

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Warning regarding a type of USB Flash drive!

2021-03-20 Thread DJanGo
Honestly USB STICKS are NOT MADE for this. https://www.heise.de/ct/hotline/Flash-Haltbarkeit-296140.html > Einige mögliche Verfahren wären jedoch: Häufig benutzte Adressen werden > nach einer gewissen Anzahl von Schreibvorgängen einfach auf andere > Blöcke umgeleitet. Bereiche, denen der Chip

[SlimDevices: Unix] Warning regarding a type of USB Flash drive!

2021-03-18 Thread carsten_h
Hello! In the last months two of my USB 3.1 flash drives can not longer be written, they are only readable. One (32GB) I had used inside a Raspberry Pi 4 with piCorePlayer installation and LMS where it was used for the LMS database. The other one (16GB) was used in a Pi 3B+ with piCorePlayer