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Originally Posted by Dngrsone
Meaning you can write to a location only so many times. Granted, that number is probably up in the five or six figures, now, but still...
I killed my first thumb drive by running Firefox portable on it with caching enabled-- lasted all of three months, I think. Lucky for me, those things still had lifetime warranties on 'em.
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the only thing worse than caches would be defragging it!
As I said I'm pretty sure that number is one million. Most drive are lost before their limit comes up, and I believe they fail gradually as more and more of the available memory fails after being worn down. The Flash controller will mark bits as being dead.