Hi,
At the moment I have only one usb flash drive. Sometimes I use dd to write distro ISOs to it to install from usb.
When finished installing I run zero fill drive for some seconds to erase the boot sector and finally use Gparted
to create a partition table. I have done this quite a number of times. Now when I copy some video files to the
flash drive and connect it to my XBMC rapberry pi its hanging and I have to hard reset it.
So does dd shorten life of drives ?
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