Ssd flash is a bit sterner stuff than a random thumb drive. 

On Sat, Sep 17, 2022, 5:03 PM Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
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



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