So, last year August I got a iRiver T10 1GB. I filled it up quick enough, and was happy that I could have my favourite Portable Apps with me. Around Christmas this year, it broke down, and I had to send it off to get a new one. I got my new one about late February, and once again filled it up with Portable Apps and music. Around early April, it broke down AGAIN. I'm sending it off today.
I was wondering, was it Portable Apps that killed it for what ever reason?
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I would assume (from my research) that it is just *not* made for portable apps.
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So your saying it killed it?
I would venture to say it has a lot to do with the type of apps you have on the flash media (more write cycles = more stress/wear on the flash memory) and the amount of luck you have...since it sounds like you've been unlucky twice now.
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It mostly only had Firefox, Sunbird, and I used it for general storage (school projects, pictures, etc.)
Yeah. Firefox and Sunbird will wear it down. And it also depends on how often you updated the "school projects, pictures, etc."
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I doubt that 3 months of reading/writing on the drive will kill it, regardless of how intensive the usage is. It would take a lot more than that to kill the flash drive.
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Read it. It's not a flash drive. It's an MP3 player.
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mp3 player or no, it has to use either a hard drive or Flash memory. I don't know of any other medium.
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My point was, that since it's an MP3 player, it is made for playing music, not being written to a lot.
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I have to agree with Bruce, MP3 player or not, it uses only 2 types of storage, either flash or the hard-drive type. And unless it's the 30GB+ iPod, chances are it's flash memory. I really don't know much about memory, but I don't see why companies would optimize something just to read. Besides, It would do just as much writing as any other usb flash drive, since you have to put music to it, and be updating your collection periodically. But let's say that you are right, it's optimized for reading, 2-3 months of usage and it's dead? There's no way you can do that much damage to it in that small amount of time. In my opinion, it's the manufacturer who is supplying the players with faulty memory.
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Yeah. Well, it could have been badly manufactured. My first flash drive died within a month, so it can probably happen for other manufacturers.
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And it probably doesn't have any wear-leveling capability, which extends the life of regular flash drives.
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Wait, what? Wear-leveling? How does that work?
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newer drives controllers can control where a file is written on a flash drive and so make sure every spot on the drive is used/written on equally.
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