18 May
2021
18 May
'21
17:00
On 5/18/21 8:55 AM, L A Walsh wrote:
2. Does the use of "dd" on USB flash drives kill the limited lives on these devices in a similar manner also?
???!!... Depends on what you do with "dd". Why would you need or want to use 'dd' unless you want to transfer a disk image. Usually you want to xfer files so 'dd' wouldn't even come into the picture.
Actually I use dd to overwrite areas at the end of disks that have been used in hardware RAID controllers. The RAID metadata lives up there and it confuses software mdraid if a drive is repurposed. Regards, Lew