I find that USB drives usually fail at the USB connector. The flash memory
itself almost never fails.

I have a couple of laptops with SSD's in them and beat them up pretty good.
So far so good.

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Adam <[email protected]> wrote:

> Derek J. Balling wrote:
>
>>
>>> What in the blazes is a SSD devise?
>>>
>>>  Solid State Disk.
>>
>> Storage devices that use Flash/NVRAM/etc. as their storage media.
>> Lightning fast, but also costly.
>>
>
> What's the reliability on those?  I just had a 16 GB USB flash drive fail
> after 20 months of reliable light (IMO) use.
>
> Adam
>
>
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