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Logging to flash storage is just asking for issues. We bought a recent model of LARGE_FIREWALL_VENDOR's SoHo product, and enabling the logging features will destroy the small (16GB?) flash storage module in a few weeks (!).

The day before we requested the 3rd RMA, the vendor put a notice on their support site that using certain features would cause drastically shortened life of the storage drive, and patched the OS in attempt to reduce the amount of writes.




Logging to poorly specified Flash storage is the real problem. They were likely using a cheap eMMC flash, which are notorious for having extremely poor write leveling.

Unfortunately the jump to good flash is quite expensive, and often hard to find in the eMMC form factor which is dominated by low cost parts.




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