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How Does Flash Media Fail?
bhodge writes "Aside from the obvious 'it stops working' answer, how does flash media — such as USB, SD, and CF — fail? Unlike with traditional hard drive, where anyone who's worked with computers for a while knows what a drive failure looks like, I don't know anyone who has experienced such a failure with flash. I've haven't been able to find more than scant evidence of what such failures look like at the OS level. The one account I have found detailed using a small USB drive for /var/log storage; it failed very quickly, and then utterly (0 byte unformatted device), after five years of service in the role. This runs contrary to other anecdotal claims that you should still be able to read the media after you can no longer write to it. So my question is: what have you seen of the nature of flash media failure, if anything?"
You have a washing machine in your pants?
Dodgy card readers,...
That's what you get for buying a Chrysler product or any Detroit product. Try getting a Honda or Toyota card reader. Or if you're a yuppy, a BMW card reader. Although, no one holds a candle to the Japanese.
That's just what all the guys call it...
That's just what all the guys call it...
My wife didn't appreciate it when I said that about her!
No, no - he means from the detergent, Tide. It's disrespectful to dirt and soiled state media.
Eloi are stupid, throw morlocks at them!
Of course, now, everybody is thinking... "What were you doing in his pants?
My office has been taken over by iPod people.