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

[Daniel Hauck]

Yeah me too!

On the other hand, I have heard where some people had collected a bunch 
of free or inexpensive USB flash drives and a bunch of free or 
inexpensive USB (self-powered) hubs to create an amusingly large RAID.

As a source of educational fun, perhaps one of the club's activities 
might be centered around creating some sort of USB flash RAID device! 
Many people can contribute to the task with a temporary loan of their 
own gear for the hour or two that it might actually take.  You can take 
pictures and document the process and immortalize the exercise in 
geekdom.  Who knows, you might even get a mention on Slashdot! :)


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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