Subj : Re: Life Expectancy of Flash Memory Drives
To   : comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.admin
From : Connor Sterner
Date : Tue Jul 13 2004 03:39 pm



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"Kenneth Lantrip" <nunya@bidny.ok> wrote in message
news:0nAEc.15407$J82.10525@fe25.usenetserver.com...
> Yesterday, my PNY Atache flash memory stick drive started to fail on me.
> It can read all files just fine. So I managed to tar all the files into
> a backup.
>
> I can reformat it in Win2000 or Knoppix just fine. But when putting
> files (of any kind) onto it will lock up the computer (W2k or Knoppix)
> every time after about a minute or so of writing to the device. It does
> this on two different computers that I've tried.
>
> Conclusion: The drive is bad.
>
> My query is: Does anyone know about how long one should expect one of
> these type drives to last under daily use as a Knoppix persistant home
> directory? Anyone know of any utilities to lock out a bad memory
> cell/sector?
>
> I thought since these things don't have moving parts (other than moving
> from place to place) they should last quite a while and be very reliable
> from data loss. Guess I was wrong.
>
> Anyone else run into problems with flash memory?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Kenneth Lantrip
>

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