[NTLUG:Discuss] Drive becoming read-only after 40 minutes?!?

[Wayne Walker]

At Fry's of course, late 2009 I think (time machine is currently broken,
can't go check right now).

On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 10:02:55AM -0500, Stuart Johnston wrote:
> Stephen Davidson wrote:
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> > Fred wrote:
> >> On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 steve at sjbaker.org wrote:
> >>> booting SuSE 10.2 from a 300Gb 
> >>> UDB drive.  It boots OK, runs just fine for ~40 minutes then quite 
> ...
> > Something else to be aware of, USB (Flash) devices only have a limited
> > number of writes, something like 100K.  Fine for storing user files,
> > etc.  But for heavy writes (like system logs), tends to burn them out
> > pretty quickly.
> 
> Please let me know where I can get one of these 300Gb USB Flash drives. 
>   --Thanks.  ;)
> 
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Wayne Walker

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