On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 10:50:42 -0400, John Duncan Yoyo wrote: >On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 6:40 AM, katan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I ask this--maybe I shouldn't admit this in public--because I use a >> thumb drive as my primary data source for email and Quicken. I can use > >I don't think you need to worry too much if you don't buy the really cheap >stuff and bang on it too hard. 100,000 writes was what was determined to be >necessary to kill a thumb drive by one set of experiments.
What, exactly, constitutes a "write"? Is it one email? Is it the whole batch that gets downloaded at a time? The CGuys list generates, probably, 5000 posts a year (or more), so that would be quite a few writes if it's just one email. It's a 512K Cruiser. I'm guessing Sandisk is not on the *bottom* of the quality scale, but this thing is, um, more than a couple years old. -- R:\katan ------------------------------------------------------------ LET'S GO METS!! LET'S GO METS!! ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
