2.5” Bulldog User Guide
April 10, 2006
page 12 of 14
5. MAINTENANCE
No maintenance is required during the normal use of this drive.
If data is to be archived for long periods of time (> 10 years), it is recommended that the data
on the drive be refreshed every 5 to 10 years. The manufacturer of the NAND E
2
PROM
devices will only guarantee data integrity for a period of 10 years. Programs such as Norton
Speedisk
©
, which reallocates all sectors on the drive, or Microsoft
®
Scandisk, which writes and
reads every sector on the disk during its surface test, achieve this end very well.
