[colug-432] MicroSD cards: pysical wear and tear

[Steve VanSlyck]

Of course if you're asleep the writes don't affect the drive or its performance.

Brian Miller <bnmille at gmail.com> wrote:

>On 02/07/2013 02:31 PM, Scott Merrill wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:22 PM,  <jep200404 at columbus.rr.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 7 Feb 2013 10:43:19 -0500, Scott Merrill <skippy at skippy.net>
>wrote:
>>>
>>>> I currently have a traditional external USB HDD (read: rotational
>>>> media) attached to this. The use case for this system doesn't merit
>a
>>>> solid state hard drive, but I could use USB sticks or SD cards to
>>>> avoid physical wear and tear.
>>
>> I should have qualified. I understand that all media wears out
>through
>> use.  What I'd like to avoid is mechanical failure of the mechanisms
>> involved in spinning platters around, or the heads responsible for
>> reading and writing to them. I'd like to not worry about damage that
>> might result from dropping the media, for example.
>>
>
>My netbook came with an 8GB SD card, preformed with either NTFS or vFAT
>
>(I don't remember which).  I've reformatted it under Linux several 
>times.  The first time I used ext2, I've formatted once with ext3, and 
>it currently has btrfs.  I can't say as I've noticed any performance 
>degradation.  But then, I haven't made a serious effort to track it.
>
>I use the system as part of my automated backup strategy, so the disk 
>does get some writes every night, but usually when I'm asleep . . .
>
>
>
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