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Subject: Re: can a wrong alignment cause a decrease in a hdd's life
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On 12/19/2011 2:22 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message<20111219221617.GA70383@freebsd.org>, Alexander Best writes:
>
>> ps: the hdd only gets mounted read-only!
> There is no known wear-effects in flash storage as long as you
> only read.

No, sorry, that's not really true.