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RE: OK, Thanks..... Would a USB Drive be more Reliable?........


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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