Harold Hartley via PLUG-discuss said on Fri, 20 Jan 2023 20:55:17 -0700

>I don’t see how any type of format can make any usb stick last any
>longer than another type of format. 

Just speaking for myself, subjectively after quite a bit of experience,
formatting Ext4 makes the *data* last longer than the windows format. I
have no data or even suspicions regarding Ext4 extending the life of
the *hardware*.

SteveT

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