Well here's the issue. These are used by doctors every 30 minutes. Basically goes like this:<br><br>Doc sees patient.<br>Doc dictates letter.<br>(Repeat 4-5 times)<br>Doc inserts dictation device into cradle and it downloads information and erases original files.
<br><br>Rinse and repeat 10 times a day, for 30 doctors.<br><br><p><DEFANGED_div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 28, 2007 8:59 PM, Michael Mol <<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" DEFANGED_style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<p><DEFANGED_div class="Ih2E3d">On Nov 28, 2007 8:00 PM, <<a href="mailto:adderd@kkmfg.com">adderd@kkmfg.com</a>> wrote:<br>> On Wed, November 28, 2007 4:46 pm, Rick Vargo wrote:<br>> > Is FAT all that the dictation devices support? If the devices support
<br>> > other more robust filesystems (with journaling) use them in lieu of FAT.<br>> ><br>> > Rick<br>><br>> I'm sure that they don't support anything other than FAT and if they did<br>> you would still not want to do it. Journaling is bad, bad, bad to use on
<br>> flash drives. It wears them out.<br><br></p><DEFANGED_div>Not really true on modern flash devices with much better per-cell<br>lifetimes and with wear-leveling. Granted, with 200 of them, there<br>were probably bought bottom-dollar discount, and may not have such
<br>features. :-)<br><p><DEFANGED_div class="Ih2E3d"><br>> Granted, it sounds as if the dictation equipment is junk and routinely<br>> destroys the drives anyway...<br>><br>> Probably the best solution involves frequent backups and lots of spares.
<br><br></p><DEFANGED_div>Indeed.<br><font color="#888888"><br>--<br>:wq<br></font><p><DEFANGED_div><p><DEFANGED_div></p><DEFANGED_div><p><DEFANGED_div class="Wj3C7c">_______________________________________________<br>grlug mailing list<br><a href="mailto:grlug@grlug.org">grlug@grlug.org
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