<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Flash media by nature still has a limit to the number of writes they can make. but wear leveling is pretty smart nowadays. and if you underprovision your drive by say 5-10% (IE leave it raw space without a file system) you can increase this. Most are designed with this concept in mind so it is more about a level of personal paranoia or preference.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">i still find their write performance leaves something to be desired so i would test it out and see if it meets your needs. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Many servers have a dedicated internal port for a thumb drive to serve as the host OS drive. OS's tuned for this frequently only write for updates and push all caching operations off to spinning rust or an SSD. in these use cases the drives will last for 10 years or more because read operations to not reduce the device operation.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 2:06 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Have they fixed the number of writes a drive cN TAKE? OR ELSE HOW MANY<br>
WRITES CAN an sd card take. I want to use it for LFS<br>
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