With TBird portable and FFox portable, how long can one expect a usb thumb drive to last with a presumed imit or 100,000 write cycles?
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Apparently 1 year is the conservative estimate - I reckon longer though!
I use my flash drive quite heavily for school assignments and stuff (basically every day). Not sure about the number of cycles, I've used three flash drives since 2004 and they each last about a year. Depends on your level of usage, really.
that my drive is reaching its end?
failures? not connecting when plugged?
I have no clues
Read/write failure, failure to be mounted correctly, causing the host computer to explode (ok not really).
Vintage!
when the connection becomes on/off, and, from experience, when your computer tells you that the "hardware has malfunctioned".