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I read on the Internet that flash drives can only be written to a certain number of times before it will not work any more.How many times can the most high quality flash drives be written to?Could a flash drive be used instead of a hard disk to run Windows or would this cause to many write cycles?

2007-08-15 07:27:25 · 3 answers · asked by Mark D 5 in Computers & Internet Hardware Other - Hardware

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EVERY electronic device has a life cycle, but never heard of a No of writes on a flash card. If there is it'll be enough not to worry about, otherwise M$ would not introduce a feature in Vista to use a flash stick as extra RAM

2007-08-15 07:34:25 · answer #1 · answered by stu_the_kilted_scot 7 · 0 0

There is no limit to how many times a flash drive can be written to. I know this as a fast because I have a flash drive with me that I have had for 3 years and have written on it countless times. And yes, you can write Windows to a flash drive but I highly recommend against it. First, you would need a fairly large flash drive just to fit all of Windows onto it. Second, once you remove it from your computer, Windows will shut down and you will basically have to reregister it every time you remove it and put it back in. To make a long story short, DONT WRITE WINDOWS TO A FLASH DRIVE.

2007-08-15 14:33:45 · answer #2 · answered by stanli121 3 · 0 0

Flash drives are one of the most unreliable hardware devices there are. you can have one for years or it will last 2 months.
They usually just die for no reason and seldom from being used too much. Microsoft even took the premature failure rate into consideration while designing Ready Boost and determined that using a pen drive in Ready Boost does not shorten the life of the pen drive. Of course, if it did I doubt they would admit it. Yes you can put an operating system on a pen drive provided you have a board that lets you boot off USB. If you do that I suggest you use an internal USB device that actually plugs directly into the motherboard header such as this one. They are selling them as ready boost drives but you can put an OS on it too.
http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/innodisk-busts-out-internal-readyboost-usb-drive/

2007-08-15 14:54:32 · answer #3 · answered by s j 7 · 0 0

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