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Is flash drive wear a significant issue?

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Mar 15, 20269111 views
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My netbook has a flash drive instead of a hard disk drive, and I'm using Ubuntu Netbook Remix with ext3 as the file system. I've read some articles concerning flash drive wear, and the main concerns seem to be: The amount of write cycles - each cell can be written to only a limited amount of times …

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Generally speaking, Flash drive wear and tear is always brought up (SSD and USB) However, I haven't seen it. I have personally found that cheap USB Flash drives for example go faulty and simply do not get recognised well before you actually see wear…

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