> In theory. USB sticks actually can wear out pretty fast. An individual > flash memory cell only survives approximately 100,000 write cycles, > which is not a lot if you think about it. Solid state disks are more > reliable because they use redundancy and are able to detect and replace > failed memory cells. >
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