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Originally Posted by Gregg Bell
Good reminder. Thanks. (I just had one go bad on me not long ago.) Curious, though, what do you mean by a "limited number of writes." Like they will only hold data a certain amount of times?
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Precisely. The more you use it, the more wear gets put on it, until it eventually refuses to continue working.
But Flash chips are rated for about a million writes, I believe, so a 1GB drive should wear out after writing a million GB of date including erasing adding new stuff and edits.