Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:19:56 -0700 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Jason Usher <jusher71@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB thumb drives for bootable flash FreeBSD installation... Message-ID: <27CA3493-BF60-401B-88EB-7C613EBA9FFB@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <1318891999.94031.YahooMailClassic@web121216.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <1318891999.94031.YahooMailClassic@web121216.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
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Hi-- On Oct 17, 2011, at 3:53 PM, Jason Usher wrote: > Are they all the same, or are there some USB flash choices that are more durable and fault tolerant than others ? There's fairly significant differences: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory#Write_endurance SLC NOR flash tends to last longer than NAND flash; SLC also tends to last longer than MLC. Regards, -- -Chuck
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