Re: Making a Debian Bootable USB Pen Drive



Grok Mogger <linuximp@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

And also, has anyone ever had a usb flash drive actually wear out? I'm
somewhat skeptical that having your OS entirely on a flash-drive would
really ruin it. Of course, I've never tried it. But I don't think I've
ever heard anyone mention that their flash drive died on them.

A well known german computer magazine has actually tried to destroy usb
flash drives by forcing writing to the same adresses over and over again.
They said that they wheren't able to destroy any of them within reasonable
time...

Robert


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