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Risks of portable apps for usb flash drives?

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October 22, 2006 - 10:51am
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kwiss
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Risks of portable apps for usb flash drives?

Hi, I heard about a limitation factor (cycle of read and write) on usb flash drives. Is an application like Firefox portable, ran for 4hours/day, can quickly damage these kind of drives?

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October 22, 2006 - 2:14pm
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flash drive life

Search for flash drive life. to answer your question, ffp and all portable apps are desgined to reduce writes to flash drives. the usual lifetime of a flash drive is around 100,000 to 1,000,000 writes.
Again search the forums, there are about 5 topics about this.

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October 24, 2006 - 9:43am
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kwiss
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Thank you. The drive I just

Thank you. The drive I just bought is an ATP Toughdrive, announced to work until 1,000,000 writes. Do you have an idea of how many writes per hour does Firefox portable?

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