Thread: Safe longterm storage
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Old 10-10-2014, 06:06 PM   #23
j.p.s
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Originally Posted by murg View Post
Don't worry about it.

You'd have to overwrite the entire device every day for your entire lifetime, your kids entire lifetimes, and their kids entire life times to run into the write cycle limit.
I'm pretty sure bad blocks would start to develop during the first month of overwriting the entire device once per day.
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