Technically its true. When you erase flash memory some of the cells
can become damaged. Manufacturers include redundant cells and load
balance healthy cells to make sure they last as long as they can.
In a practical sense? This will probably never affect flash memory in
any way unless you used it as swap space for a Dell computer running
Windows XP with 128M of RAM.
Mal
On 12/04/2006, at 10:10 AM, Peter Bull wrote:
Hi Muggers,
I often use a USB thumb drive as a giant floppy disk. I work in
different places and it is great to be able to carry all sorts of
stuff and use it on different computers. I have heard from a couple
of people lately that thumb drives have a limited life if used in
this way, that is, they should only be used as backup storage. Is
this true?
Peter Bull
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next week - NOT)
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