On Sat, 2022-09-17 at 06:20 -0400, Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss wrote: > Flash media doesn't wear out on read. Only on erase in prep for writing. > The majority of storage life is just that. Storage. I've had flash drives (thumb drives) go bad just sitting. They were all windows formatted. I don't recall an EXT4 formatted thumb drive going bad. SteveT