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Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan
I've used something like that for some time, and I've always found Sandisk the best brand, they long last but they always die in the end depending on the number of writes (and I'm talking about a year maximum).
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I'm surprised to hear that your flash memory dies that quickly. I would expect a lot of Calibre to be a "write once, read slightly more frequently" operation. My normal usage is to add a new book to Calibre, set all it's metadata, then leave it alone for the rest of it's life. The files may be read when I pull books out of Calibre onto my Kindle, but they shouldn't be re-written often, if at all. Unless Calibre is doing something funky in the background that I'm not aware of. Given this usage pattern, I would expect flash memory to outlast me. Especially if you buy a flash drive a decent bit larger than the size of your Calibre library, so the wear-leveling algorithms can spread out the writes even further.