USB thumb drives for bootable flash FreeBSD installation...

[Chuck Swiger]

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,
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-Chuck