Not sure, I do know that from what I have read, you don't really need to
defrag flashdrives, but, as far as formatting, it's just a matter to how
much you read and write back and forth to the drive that can make it go bad.
They are supposed to have a life span of so many read/writes, but, I have
never had a flashdrive go bad yet so I can't really give any guesses to how
long that may actually be. I have actually thaught of doing linux installs
to a flashdrive and this is where I got this info.
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Ferrin" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 11:40 AM
Subject: [Blind-Computing] formatting a flash drive
I must print a retraction because my memory failed me earlier. Smart
computing mentions defragmenting a flash drive is not good for them, I do
not recall anything mentioning reformatting.
David Ferrin
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