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January 6, 2006 - 5:46am
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Anonymous (not verified)
thumbdrive lifespan

I hear that the the life is drained with every write to the drive.

With apps like thunderbird (writing lots of mail) on my 1gb memorex traveldrive, even though i have a 2 year warranty, i'm curious if anyone know's how long a drive will typically last?

-Joe

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January 6, 2006 - 9:24am
John T. Haller
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Check your

documentation. It's usually 1,000,000 writes. And most drives space that out over the drive. The only things that would be bad would be to enable a web browser's cache, for instance.

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January 6, 2006 - 7:15pm
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Dan2552 (not verified)
well, not particularly

well, not particularly counting how much i've used it, but my 128mb usb flash drive has lasted 2 or 3 years now

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