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> In any case, I wonder if this new ritual I'm doing is really worth it, and if it's not, when would it be?

Depends on the chances and impact of getting a fake/faulty device, yeah? I've heard claims that most online marketplaces have rampant fakes, although you're 4 for 4 with good ones. On the other hand, the failure mode is data loss, which seems pretty bad. So personally I think your approach is a good idea.




I want to think so too, but I wonder how much less the devices are going to last me before they wear out. I know it depends a lot on usage patterns, though. Luckily, I needed these devices almost exclusively for reading, but I wonder if I reduced the available writes something massive.


I mean if the write cycles are so low on a device that one drive write is a problem then it was already a problem before you did one drive write. Even a cheap (legitimate) uSD should have hundreds of full drive write cycles.




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