[Nottingham] USB flashing your distro?

[Andy Smith]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:26:26AM +0100, Michael Erskine wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 April 2008 12:59:24 Andy Smith wrote:
> > > The main idea is not to unduly wear the flash during normal use.
> > Certainly doable, but generally pointless as modern flash media
> > doesn't have a low write cycle limit.  They will last for tens of
> > years while writing 24/7.
> 
> WRONG!

Note I said modern.  It's hard to find any without wear levelling.
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