Implications of limited writes to flash drives

[Mark Wieder]

Richard-

Friday, March 16, 2007, 10:46:28 AM, you wrote:

> Have any of you had a flash drive fail on writes?
> How serious do you think this limitation is in practical use?

Sheesh. You're worried about "several hundred thousand" write cycles?
I don't write to flash drives all that often - read cycles are much
more prevalent. I think more to the point is that I've outgrown my
smaller flash drives and had to move to newer and bigger ones.

There's a wonderful tradition that started many years ago when monks
began transcribing manuscripts. I believe they called it backups. I
don't have *anything* on a flash drive that I don't have backed up
somewhere safe. Usually multiple copies. But then that's just me being
paranoid that my media might self-destruct some day.

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-Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net