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by bahahah 4335 days ago
Corrupting the storage of a test pattern isn't particularly useful. MAYBE, you could cause premature tagging of bad blocks wearing out a flash drive/card faster. If the system you are using is allowing these kinds of writes to your storage device you have more pressing issues.

Only the most primitive SD/flash drive controllers actually use this scheme anyway -- encryption is much better at randomizing.