USB writes

[Michael Havens]

how long do you think one would last with open elec on it?

:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Daniel Stasinski
<daniel at genericinbox.com>wrote:

> 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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