[GRLUG] Flash Disk Recovery

[Michael Mol]

On Nov 28, 2007 8:00 PM,  <adderd at kkmfg.com> wrote:
> On Wed, November 28, 2007 4:46 pm, Rick Vargo wrote:
> > Is FAT all that the dictation devices support?  If the devices support
> > other more robust filesystems (with journaling) use them in lieu of FAT.
> >
> > Rick
>
> I'm sure that they don't support anything other than FAT and if they did
> you would still not want to do it. Journaling is bad, bad, bad to use on
> flash drives. It wears them out.

Not really true on modern flash devices with much better per-cell
lifetimes and with wear-leveling.  Granted, with 200 of them, there
were probably bought bottom-dollar discount, and may not have such
features. :-)

> Granted, it sounds as if the dictation equipment is junk and routinely
> destroys the drives anyway...
>
> Probably the best solution involves frequent backups and lots of spares.

Indeed.

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