(September 29, 2015 at 8:10 pm)IATIA Wrote:(September 28, 2015 at 6:00 pm)emjay Wrote: I thought pen drives weren't good for that sort of thing because they themselves are almost the precursors to SSDs, and likely to wear out even quicker, especially with all the writes of metadata in NTFS?
As cheap as they are now, who cares? You could always format FAT32. XP can handle that.
Ugh. No thanks.
I don't think it's going to matter on something in this use case.
SSDs use wear leveling algorithms for longevity though, I don't think SD cards bother because in most cases, there just isn't enough I/O to matter. Might not matter on a typical consumer system, but I wouldn't use a SD card for primary storage on anything important.