USB writes

[Michael Havens]

wait a second..... seven years? That is about the life span of an HDD!

:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> how long do you think one would last with open elec on it?
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Daniel Stasinski <daniel at genericinbox.com
> > wrote:
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>> Still true last time I checked but they use a lot of techniques to
>> mitigate the problem.  They write to different locations and I'm told some
>> have far more memory space internally than is available to decrease the
>> amount of writes to any given address.   My first USB drives lasted maybe a
>> year at most but I have a few now that are 7 years or older.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I remember that USB drives used to be good for a limited amount of
>>> writes. Is that still true?
>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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