28 Aug
2006
28 Aug
'06
12:05 a.m.
On 8/25/06, chrism@imntv.com chrism@imntv.com wrote:
I was under the impression that flash memory had a somewhat finite number of writes (relative to boring old hard disks) before the error rate started to quickly go south.
You're correct. Distros that boot/install from thumbdrive follow the liveCD model, like Knoppix. Read all the info and store in RAM. The media is not written to.
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Francois Caen, RHCE, CCNA
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