From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Sun, 11/16/2025 9:47 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Sun, 16 Nov 2025 21:07:38 -0500, Paul wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Sun, 11/16/2025 6:13 PM, Felix wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> makes sense. I will do backups to a USB drive.   
   >>   
   >> Storage devices have reliability characteristics.   
   >>   
   >> In some cases, they're hard to predict.   
   >   
   > An issue I have found more than once, is that USB sticks can get very   
   > slow as you try to fill them.   
   >   
      
   And they can die, right before your very eyes when they do that.   
      
   They seem to slow on write, down to the 1.5MB/sec to 3.0MB/sec range.   
   And maybe the next day you plug it in, and it doesn't work any more.   
      
   It has the appearance of a "spiral of death" behavior. The flash cells   
   themselves may not be in such bad shape, as to justify sparing out   
   until all the spares are gone.   
      
   But it's getting academic here. My computer store doesn't have stock   
   any more of the "fast" USB sticks. And at the Walmart, the USB flash   
   stick section is almost cleared of stock. Something is going on.   
      
      Paul   
      
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