On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 22:51 +0800, FuziOK wrote: > What does "premature wearout" mean? Why does it happen? They only have a finite number of writes that they can manage, before wearing out. And it's not a very high value. If you have a filing system that is continually writing something to the drive, it'll wear it out quicker. Such as, updating file accessed times, etc. -- (Currently testing FC5, but still running FC4, if that's important.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.