Hi Ole, Thanks for the advice! > If you had not, then I have successfully made a bad hard > drive start > one final time by putting it in the freezer overnight. It > might be > worth trying if only for the practice.
This sounds interesting. i think i will try this out over the weekend, just for the heck of it! Just out of curiosity, what is the reasoning behind this? > Yes. Flash drives do have limited lifespan if rewritten. > There are > filesystems that will try to increase the lifespan by > distributing the > wear (JFFS2 springs to mind). i found this document from Corsair through Wikipedia (http://www.corsairmemory.com/_faq/FAQ_flash_drive_wear_leveling.pdf). It talks about wear levelling, and at the last paragraph: <quote> Will my Corsair USB Flash drive last more than 10 years? Yes. All Corsair flash drives are built with memory components that can handle AT LEAST 10,000 write cycles; typically they will handle an order of magnitude more than this. So, this means that in order to exhaust the drive in ten years, one would have to write to EVERY BLOCK in the device about 2.7 times per day, every single day. We simply can’t conceive of such a usage scenario; this would mean that on a fairly typical 8 GByte drive, one would need to write over 21 GBytes of data to it every day for ten years! USB flash drives simply are not used in this way. If one thinks he or she might actually try this, we suggest buying a Corsair Flash Voyager GT or a Corsair Flash Survivor GT USB drive. They are built with components guaranteed for 100,000 write cycles. With these, one can write over 210 GBytes of data to the drive each day, for ten years! </quote> i think i may get one of these Corsair drives! Based on my usage, it should last at least as long as the portable hdd. Just another update, this morning, i tried plugging in the USB hdd again (without trying the freezer technique yet), and it was detected! So i started copying out the other stuffs as well, and it managed to do that, but ran into the same previous problems about halfway through. hmm... Thanks and Regards, Edwin Get your new Email address! Grab the Email name you've always wanted before someone else does! http://mail.promotions.yahoo.com/newdomains/sg/ _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
