Parking disk drive heads

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On Saturday 20 August 2005 10:18, Mike Silbersack wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Doug Ambrisko wrote:
> > Flash is nice but it has some issues.  Atleast dropping it isn't one!
> >
> > Doug A.
>
> I'd be really happy if I could get a USB flash drive to last more than 8
> months.  Luckily, I started weekly backups after the first failure.  That
> helped a lot when the second failure happened.
>

Flash drives does usually not last more than 10000 writes, per bit, from what 
I know. Probably you need some kind of special file-system that moves the 
files around as the write quoute gets used up! Eventually the size of the 
disk will reach zero, and you have to move the files elsewhere :-) But this 
is probably off topic.

--HPS