questions re: usb drive. fat32, linux file system

[Karl Auer]

On Tue, 2017-06-20 at 22:26 -0700, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> That's idiotic. It's like buying a car and to park it, to avoid the
> side effects of driving.

No - it's like making sure you drive carefully. Accelerate evenly,
brake evenly, use the correct gear and your car will last longer.

If you don't need the last access times, turn them off and your SSD
will last longer. So will an ordinary HDD, for that matter. And you'll
get a (very, very small) performance increase too :-)

If you do need them, don't turn them off. It's not "idiotic". Most
people are much more interested in last modification time, which
changes rarely, but there are thousands of system files that are
accessed extremely frequently, though the times of those accesses are
completely uninteresting to most people.

> you also wouldn't think about an USB stick RAID. Would you?

You should google "USB stick RAID"...

Regards, K.

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