[clug] OT: USB Thumb Drive Error Checking

[Paul Wayper]

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Brett Worth wrote:
| Sorry about the off topic post...
|
| Do USB flash drives do integrity checking with CRC or the like?  A
| friend of mine has had a file go corrupt on an 8GB thumbdrive without
| error.  The file was just text which had some X's turn into Y's.  I've
| tried some googling but I can't narrow the search. :-/

There might be more expensive ones that do, but in general I wouldn't bet on it.

This is one of those reasons I look forward to our new ZFS or btrfs overlords.

Have fun,

Paul
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