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[Brennen Bearnes]

> Is it an urban myth that flash media will "wear out"?  I remember
> hearing back in the day that USB sticks have limited write cycles, but
> lately I've seen things that indicate those cycles are approximately
> the same as the number of cycles you get on a hard drive platter.  In
> other words, there's no longer any real difference between writes on
> USB and HDD.
>
> In addition, the number of writes is some huge number per cell and it's
> unlikely you'd ever hit that unless you specifically had a program
> constantly writing to exactly the same location on the drive...
>
> Any insight?
>

This scrolled across reddit just the other day:

http://www.bress.net/blog/archives/114-How-Long-Does-a-Flash-Drive-Last.html

-- Brennen