<br clear="all">Many of us seem to be building up piles of flash devices.<br>And the concept of "bit rot" or wear out by any other name is accepted,<br>Which raises 3 questions about handling the issue.<br><br>1. Are there utilities that can report the history or other metric data on future life span?
<br><br>2. Is it possible to somehow log write to device events as a file entry?<br>Since many devices have a Write indicator, some way of probing that indicator to increment a counter, then some estimation of drive wear would be captured as a human readable numerical.
<br>So the device could be reassigned from rewritable to archive if that is viable, or replaced as pre-emptive risk reduction.<br><br>3. Is there evidence to support a flash device used for say-70% of it's estimated "Write Cycles"
<br>being still permanently stable as Read Only for archiving?<br>-- <br>Oren Beck<br><br>816.729.3645