Read/write cycles. If you need to frequently format the flash drive for security reasons, will the life be shortened because of the formatting? How many cycles do you think a format would use?
Update:
I meant to say I’ve heard that they can only handle a certain amount of read/write cycles.
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They can, but formatting a drive (in terms of read write cycles) is fundamentally no different than writing and deleting data off it. Besides, the read/write cycle is numbered in millions if not billions, and even that is just a guess as to when the semiconductors in the chip MAY start failing.
In other words: Don’t worry about it, by the time you ACTUALLY hit that limit, you’ll be buying a flash drive times the size for half the price.
The systemmemory on your laptop is something else then flash memory. Systemmemory would not final while the ability is decrease whilst flash memory does. the belief on which flash memory works makes it degrade slowly over the years after many repeated writes, whilst time-honored systemmemory would not have that concern.
How many cycles?
Depends on ‘How much ‘stuff’ ya got on it’.
One thing is for sure, the more you use it, the better chance of it ‘bustin up’.
Of course, it may last forever, so to speak. It may last another minute, who can say?
The nut that told you about limitations musta been thinking about his/her brain.
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Source(s): techie
Flash drives are ‘damaged’ primarily from writing, not reading.
My gB now only shows .gB because of frequent writing.
maybe.
i had one and after formatting it due to me using different Operating Systems (Ubuntu and Fedora) on it, it started to malfunction.