Since most if not all USB Flash drive fail after so many reads/writes. My question is how does one know when that limit is almost reached? I mean I always have good backs up my data but is there any way to really tell or do you just have to wait for USB Dooms Day? Maybe like a software app that can tell how many reads/writes have been made on a given flash device?
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MrChris
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Really, from what I've heard seen and experienced, drive will last a good 3-4 years of use. And by that time, Im ready to buy a new drive anyway. So I really dont worry about it.
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if your using windows, insert your drive, right click on "my computer" and click "manage". in the bottom it will tell you if your drives are healthy or not.
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http://www.flash-gear.com/8/ (ask the same question there)
LOL
Seriously, drive life is kinda like asking when you engine in your car will blow up. Better drives tend to last longer, but that does not mean that any drive cannot fail at any time.
BACKUP!!!
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I asked it, 'Are you a dumbo?'
1st answer: Reply hazy, please try again
2nd answer: Cannot predict at this time
3rd answer: Very doubtful
Answer: "You may rely on it."
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I tried to find where you were posted somewhere. Sorry for getting your topic locked. I didn't mean to get anyone in trouble, but I figured everything I said was in line with the Off-Topic Forum Guidelines. Apparently two Christians can't have a little 3-post conversation about their religion. Again, sorry.
"If there was a Genesis Flood, you would find billions of dead things buried in rock layers laid down by water all over the earth. What do you find? Billions of dead things buried in rock layers laid down by water all over the earth."
Ken Ham
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook
Yes but we live under a benevolent dictatorship here.
And JH was right. Religion and politics get you in trouble more often than not in polite conversation.
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I did not mean to make a bad note there. I was just asking. Not to shift the blame to him, but I was just defending my position when argbrulo said that. I was just asking for other creationists.
EDIT: Just in case he didn't realize, the original post was to someoneabc
"If there was a Genesis Flood, you would find billions of dead things buried in rock layers laid down by water all over the earth. What do you find? Billions of dead things buried in rock layers laid down by water all over the earth."
Ken Ham
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook
And it's not like John forces anything on us.
Maybe he has subliminal messages...
BOW DOWN TO JOHNWell that was
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So all that Airbus-delay trouble over here in Europe is because of YOU!
Simeon.
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
I asked it two things:
1. Will my flash drive die tomorrow? Answer: Signs point to yes. *gulp*
2. Am I cool? Answer: Yes.
"If there was a Genesis Flood, you would find billions of dead things buried in rock layers laid down by water all over the earth. What do you find? Billions of dead things buried in rock layers laid down by water all over the earth."
Ken Ham
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook
Well, evidently it must be wrong
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So all that Airbus-delay trouble over here in Europe is because of YOU!
Simeon.
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
Yeah, my flash drive worked this morning :wink:.
"If there was a Genesis Flood, you would find billions of dead things buried in rock layers laid down by water all over the earth. What do you find? Billions of dead things buried in rock layers laid down by water all over the earth."
Ken Ham
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook
If the first one wasn't true, then the second mustn't be
(Hehe. Ryan: 2, Kevin: 1)
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So all that Airbus-delay trouble over here in Europe is because of YOU!
Simeon.
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
Okay, you win :lol:. I can't think of any more comebacks.
"If there was a Genesis Flood, you would find billions of dead things buried in rock layers laid down by water all over the earth. What do you find? Billions of dead things buried in rock layers laid down by water all over the earth."
Ken Ham
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook
I cannot give you a scalar answer, but always assume your drive will fail soon.
Not only do the drives not last forever, the can be wiped or destroyed in numerous ways.
I had my 4 gig drive with all of my portable apps, including Xampp/xampplite, and downloads wiped twice! The first time, someone removed it without safely removing hardware after copying FirefoxPortable, the second time was random, but was probably a similar situation.
I lost very little in both occasions because I copy the drive's contents onto my home computer's hard drive, and periodically burn my backups onto a disk. This way, I always have a good backup.
...instead of "copying" your portable backups to your home PC, why not RUN them from your PC *primarily* and have the thumb drive act as (essentially) an auxiliary PC?... The net result is the same (you always have a copy available somewhere that you can use), but the benefits are considerably better than just 'having a backup'. Here's what I mean:
This is what I've been doing since even before I discovered "portable apps" as a specific area of interest to others: I'd always had a few proggies that I knew could be run from a burned CD w/o any tinkering necessary. Then, when I "discovered" the portable apps community (not *this* site specifically, but ALL such sites that I stumbled onto a few months or so back), I found that there were WAY more apps the could be run portably than I ever knew of.
So since then, I've created a new folder on my HDD consisting of ONLY portable apps. Wherever possible (unless there was some overriding reason to keep them around, like special feature sets. etc.), I've eliminated the use of installed proggies altogether and replaced them w/ portable ones. By doing this, I've eliminated the bloated HDD footprints of stuff like M$ Orifice, Adobe Acrobat, Internet Explorer, Nero, PowerDVD, WinAmp, and more.
Then, when I discovered USB thumb drives, I began putting the apps onto my thumbs instead of burning the crucial ones onto CD, so I can take some of my fave apps around with me. For the last several motnhs, I've had in excess of 1 GB worth of portable apps that I run regularly from my PC.
Schweet...
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I guess some of us have been doing that since the early days of 3.5" FDDs.
My favourite 'portable' app has been TreePad... you could take your notes file and TreePad.exe around with you on a FD and use it on any computer, but it would have been silly to have run off that FD when you were at your 'base' machine.
I use the same strategy today. My 'base' machine is a sub laptop which I usually have with me. When I don't I use my Sandisk 1G SD Plus USB card which I keep in synch with my portable apps folder on the laptop. For me it wouldn't make sense to use the SD card all the time, just when I'm travelling light.
Me too. With me it was NoteTab text editor, and mebbe a few other small apps.
Then I moved onto burning stuff onto CD-R's, which allowed me to use bigger proggies, and more of 'em. (Opera was one of the first one's I used on a burned CD).
Next, I burned DOS stuff onto a bootable CD, so as to be able to do system stuff behind Windows' back (Partition Magic, Antivirus proggy, System check/repair utilities of different kinds, etc.).
Finally, I discovered portable apping, so I can carry Windows stuff (and plenty of it) around w/ me wherever I go.
Schweet.
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- Brad Stine
Answer: Till it's dead.
(A tip o' the hat goes to the book
"How To Stay Fit And Healthy Until You're Dead", by Dave Barry)
"I don't hate cats...as long as they stay on the freeway, where they belong."
- Brad Stine
You might find this page relevent:
http://www.recalibrate.net/blog/2006/01/11/tweaks-ntfs-removable-media/
In addition to the comments it makes I recommend removing the device's Allow Indexing Service option.
Most of the tweaks presented need to be done on each machine the device is run on.
And while the Optimize for Performance is effective and useful it can be disasterous if the USB device is removed without using the "safely remove hardware" procedure or Eject function from Windows Explorer.
(Note: it's really too bad this forum doesn't support standard html tags like and etc that all current standards compliant browsers do.
Another possibility, since it's able to edit them out it seems that it would be just as easy to edit them to the format desired, ie convert to , thus not impacting the end user negatively.)
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Read. The. XHTML. Specifications. The reason it's strong not b is because of alternate browsers like screen readers. The screen reader knows to say it strong, but it doesn't know if it's bold for emphasis or bold for formatting.
Straight from Wikipedia's XHTML article:
The remaining presentational elements i, b and tt, still allowed in XHTML 1.x (even Strict), will be absent from XHTML 2.0. The only somewhat presentational elements remaining will be sup and sub for superscript and subscript respectively, because they have significant non-presentational uses and are required by certain languages. All other tags are meant to be semantic instead (e.g. <strong> for strong or bolded text) while allowing the user agent to control the presentation of elements via CSS.
Seriously, the next time I here about this, I'm going to smash my computer.
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So all that Airbus-delay trouble over here in Europe is because of YOU!
Simeon.
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
I also know that screen readers can be updated/enhanced/modified/etc just like any other device/program so it shouldn't be hard for them to translate the b tag to strong. Rather than the forum sw removing the valid html codes (and enforcing a standard yet to be published) why not have it translate the codes?
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It's semantically correct. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web (not the best example)
All visual styles should be abstracted from the content.
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So all that Airbus-delay trouble over here in Europe is because of YOU!
Simeon.
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
That's a wonderful goal, it just doesn't represent current reality. The existing tag editing is out of sync with reality.
Easiest solution to support both worlds, have the board's sw edit the current non-desired inputted tags to the desired futuristic ones. Then everybody wins.
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