[GRLUG] Flash Disk Recovery

[Justin Popa]

Well here's the issue. These are used by doctors every 30 minutes. Basically
goes like this:

Doc sees patient.
Doc dictates letter.
(Repeat 4-5 times)
Doc inserts dictation device into cradle and it downloads information and
erases original files.

Rinse and repeat 10 times a day, for 30 doctors.

On Nov 28, 2007 8:59 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> :wq
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