Hi Im New To Running Applications On A Flash Drive And My Question Is We All know That Flash Drives Have An Amount Of Write Cycles But When Using One Of These Applications Does It Write Anything To The USB Or Does It Just Read And If It reads Only Will This Affect The Life Of The USB????
Thanks in Advance
[Topic clarified by mod Tim]
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All the Apps here read and write to your Usb drive. Otherwise it would be hard to save you settings...
As for read and write affecting the drive's life cycle, I think only writing does but I might be wrong.
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see because what im trying to find out is that if you make a program like blender where it will be reading all of the information constantly like the renderer would it affect the life because all of the savefiles i would be using on it like images would be saved to the actual pc rather than the flashdrive initially. if reading from the drive constantly doesnt effect it then ill be happy
if it does then it look like ill be buying a new portable harddrive instead :(((((((
using a portable hard drive?
Or a flash drive?
Thats a difference. If you're using a hard drive, it doesn't matter because a hard drive takes much more read/write cycles than a flash drive.
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I'm not really sure how many cycles a flash drive can take but, I do know that writing will take more of a toll than reading. However, both reading and writing do eventually wear out the drive as both require an electric current running through the circuit to retrieve information.
the essence was that flashdrives tend to get lost or damaged otherwise longtime before they´d have a chance to wear out..I´ve been using a high speed flashdrive almost every day for about two years and it´s still runing like first time..
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And came across this article.
http://www.getusb.info/what-is-the-life-cycle-of-a-usb-flash-drive/
Interesting reading, and mainly states that the connection method will wear out long before the read/write cycle limitation is reached.