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flash loses charge from the cells. hard drives are mechanical, but they loose the magnetic charge at a significantly slower rate (or I should say, flash memory loses it faster).
but in both cases the files are better to be scrubbed regularly. zfs can do this with little effort, but creating once and then rechecking a checksum file could also have the same effect. gives the drive a chance to recognize and renew weak charges. I don't think flash drives and sd cards have such built-in functionality, so maybe have 2 partitions and copy the whole contents in a direction, overwriting data, next time the other direction. but always check the checksums before any such copy.
Dude we didn't come here to argue partition formatting lmao. Cool ZFS is good. But limited to a handful of Linux distros on a computer (not phone) and definitely not for the average Joe* to figure out how to use.
dude cool down with your tone and downvotes, this is not reddit. if you reread my comment, the zfs part and the partitioning part are independent possibilities. you don't need partitions for zfs. the 2 partition way is for when you don't have zfs for whatever reason. you will probably be able to make use of that even from your monthly subscription windows 12.
btw, there is zfs for windows too. but yeah the other way is easier, only more laborious.
I don't care what Windows uses, but you think windows would actually support another format? They've used NTFS forever, and ReFS hadn't really taken of despite its intro around server 2012 & windows 8. Sure it has WSL but idk they'll support ZFS that much.
I have been relieved they started supporting the open document format in recent Microsoft 365 desktop software.
and your point is? never said anything about what windows uses. doesn't matter either.
I do not think, I know.
https://github.com/openzfsonwindows/openzfs
https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs
https://github.com/RaldS7/btrfs-windows
https://github.com/Mateuscruz19/Ext4Windows
but this point also does not matter whatsoever at all, because in my original comment I said nothing about using ZFS on windows.
points that actually matter were not addressed by you, so whatever. good for you that you could pick on points that don't matter.
Both BTRFS projects haven't been updated in years. And the ZFS on Windows project has quite a few caveats, and it doesn't look like there's not much work or progress happening there.
Ultimately, I would never trust Windows with those filesystems. It can barely keep its own things stable, and running a filesystem as a userland process isn't ideal.
You literally said it TWICE in your comment. Why else would I have replied to it??
Also, someone porting ZFS does not make it officially supported, so again, the vast majority of average Joe users will not know or understand ZFS as I stated before.