USB writes

[Daniel Stasinski]

I should add that my thumb drives are not plugged in constantly.  Just
typical use of moving files between places, so I have no idea what their
powered lifetime would be.


On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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~(-:
>>
>>
>> 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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