<html><head/><body><html><head></head><body><p>Of course <u>if</u> you're asleep the writes don't affect the drive or its performance.</p>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Brian Miller <bnmille@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap:break-word; font-family: sans-serif; margin-top: 0px">On 02/07/2013 02:31 PM, Scott Merrill wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:22 PM, <jep200404@columbus.rr.com> wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;">On Thu, 7 Feb 2013 10:43:19 -0500, Scott Merrill <skippy@skippy.net> wrote:<br /><br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #8ae234; padding-left: 1ex;">I currently have a traditional external USB HDD (read: rotational<br />media) attached to this. The use case for this system doesn't merit a<br />solid state hard drive, but I could use USB sticks or SD cards to<br />avoid physical wear and tear.</blockquote><br /></blockquote>I should have qualified. I understand that
all media wears out through<br />use. What I'd like to avoid is mechanical failure of the mechanisms<br />involved in spinning platters around, or the heads responsible for<br />reading and writing to them. I'd like to not worry about damage that<br />might result from dropping the media, for example.</blockquote><br /><br />My netbook came with an 8GB SD card, preformed with either NTFS or vFAT <br />(I don't remember which). I've reformatted it under Linux several <br />times. The first time I used ext2, I've formatted once with ext3, and <br />it currently has btrfs. I can't say as I've noticed any performance <br />degradation. But then, I haven't made a serious effort to track it.<br /><br />I use the system as part of my automated backup strategy, so the disk <br />does get some writes every night, but usually when I'm asleep . . .<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><hr /><br />colug-432 mailing list<br />colug-432@colug.net<br /><a
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