>"The ArVid software gave users a lot of information about the number of errors on tape. This was unique at a time when backup vendors preferred to pretend tha

>"The ArVid software gave users a lot of information about the number of errors on tape. This was unique at a time when backup vendors preferred to pretend that errors didn’t exist. And it was a source of pride for the creators. This decision gave users the feedback they needed to improve their use of the system..." It would be great if in the future all Flash RAM/non-volatile/persistent memory storage devices -- would give users easy access to what their hardware knows about its own internal errors... For example, in a Flash RAM device, most notably a USB thumb drive -- tell me everything you know about the blocks/regions of memory that have went bad and had to be remapped, when a remap occurred, and what new physical blocks/region was used to remap the data. Basically I as a user -- want to know anything and everything about what the hardware knows about the state of the underlying storage medium. Companies that are transparent about this in the future -- will succeed brilliantly!