Is there a practical read/write limitation on USB pocket-harddisk thingies?

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I have a 32 megger I got as a gift and it's pretty darn neat. Anyway, I seem to recall reading somewhere that these were limited to like 100 reads or writes, but flash memory is unlimited in most other areas. Did I dream this?

 

[DaveSimmons]

100 thousand or so, for each "sector" of the flash. Flash controllers cycle through all the sectors so you can essentially fill it completely 100K times.

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Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
100 thousand or so, for each "sector" of the flash. Flash controllers cycle through all the sectors so you can essentially fill it completely 100K times.

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So, if I have a 32 meg card and I fill it 1 meg, and then delete it 1 meg, you're saying I can do that 32 X 100,000 times, since it sequentially fills the card?

EDIT: Yeah that link seems to say that. Thanks!