In Reply to: RE: OK, Thanks..... Would a USB Drive be more Reliable?........ posted by Tony Lauck on July 26, 2014 at 07:34:16:
SD cards and thumb drives are not over provisioned like SSDs and do not implement rigorous wear leveling and do not directly support TRIM. It's quite conceivable that the same blocks are being written to excessively. Running fstrim occasionally might help.
The use cases for SD cards and thumb drives are quite different in cameras and other intended purposes. The read/write duty cycle of running a general purpose OS on an SD card would be relatively high compared to the duty cycle for it's intended use.
But regardless of media, everyone should maintain recent tested backups.
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- RE: OK, Thanks..... Would a USB Drive be more Reliable?........ - AbeCollins 10:06:29 07/26/14 (1)
- RE: OK, Thanks..... Would a USB Drive be more Reliable?........ - Tony Lauck 12:23:08 07/26/14 (0)