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Thread ID: 113581	2010-10-26 21:27:00	How long does a flash drive last?	jareemon (5207)	PC World Chat

Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
1147864	2010-10-26 21:27:00	Article here (www.bress.net).	jareemon (5207)
1147865	2010-10-26 21:54:00	Makes interesting reading more writes than I thought too	gary67 (56)
1147866	2010-10-26 23:52:00	Yea, I always hear people say how they die after a certain number of writes, but I thought it was only a few thousand :p :pf1mobmini:	jareemon (5207)
1147867	2010-10-26 23:58:00	The more expensive ones are better. Read this from Sandisk: www.sandisk.com	Chilling_Silence (9)
1147868	2010-10-27 00:26:00	I'm more likely to lose one than wear it out!!! :D	johcar (6283)
1147869	2010-10-27 01:26:00	Interesting, but if not 90 % full, it might last longer. Or if larger more complex files (e.g. Images), or boot files used, etc are written, might last shorter.	kahawai chaser (3545)
1147870	2010-10-27 03:49:00	I'm more likely to lose one than wear it out!!! :D 6 months ago, i brought my first 16gb usb flash drive, put a ton of files on it, then 2 days later I lost it at my friends house. I was so gutted, turned the house upside down looking for it a few times over the next couple weeks. Anyway, the other day it turned up, and i was over the moon, so many files recovered :)	jareemon (5207)
1147871	2010-10-27 03:52:00	Read this from Sandisk: I tried to, honest, but then I saw a big equation and closed the window :p	jareemon (5207)
1147872	2010-10-27 05:12:00	I hear that making a flash drive swap partition ("virtual RAM") will kill it really good. Which makes me wonder: does Windows' ReadyBoost do that to flash drives too?	LynX (14542)
1147873	2010-10-27 07:59:00	Article here (www.bress.net). Geez! With the results I get with things L-based, I bet I could kill it in 20 --- no, make that 15 --- NO, make the 5 cycles. :thumbs:	SurferJoe46 (51)
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