Was given a one GB USB JetFlash Memory Stick and, not knowing anything about them, decided to look them up on the net
at this link.
I was surprised to see that they are "lifed" at one million writes (or "erase cycles") - so I was so pleased that I hadn't made it my Win XP standalone swap file disk.
Does anybody know whether this is limit is a hard limit or
a. whether it's just when you could expect planned design obsolescence to cut in or
b. That's when the itty bitty battery that keeps the RAM powered cannot any longer take and hold a charge?
I realize that they are intended to just transfer data between /via USB ports on compliant machines however at the rate I would normally "write" to a hard disk, that one million cycles would be a life of about six months max.
Maybe somebody out there knows better. One puzzling thing is that even though these devices are just memory sticks, they don't seem to be all that fast (nowhere as fast as a ram disk for instance).