<div dir="ltr">wait a second..... seven years? That is about the life span of an HDD!</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Michael Havens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">how long do you think one would last with open elec on it?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div><div><div class="h5">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Daniel Stasinski <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:daniel@genericinbox.com" target="_blank">daniel@genericinbox.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">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.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Michael Havens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I remember that USB drives used to be good for a limited amount of writes. Is that still true?<br clear="all"><div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div>
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