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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