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?

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???!!... 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