Thankful Thursday

[mdlbear]

Today I'm grateful for

• Colleen being home from the hospital.
• Industrial-strength antibiotics.
• Her caregiver, V.
• Disposables.
• Moore's law. Apparently my music collection fits on a thumb drive that I can afford. Finally.
• Zoom.

Comments

[acelightning]

I'm very glad to hear that Colleen is home. Hospitals are terrible places to be - they're full of sick people!

[madfilkentist]

Moore's Law applies to music collections too. It's a race.

[maellenkleth]

What's the anticipated service life of a thumb drive, these days?

[mdlbear]

A quick search suggests that it's around 10 years or 10k write cycles. Using one as a swap device is not advised, and on Unix-like systems they should be mounted with the noatime option to keep the access time from being updated on every read. Write leveling in newer drives can increase the number of writes, but it's hard to get stats on any particular drive.