You break something. The contact system even with the wrong material is somewhere about 500 cycles but with the proper material is well into the 10,000 and up range.
2. Not a firm number but you get 10,000 to 1,000,000 erase cycles. Now this is actually a number higher since that refers to single bank or cell erasures and only when you "flip the bit".
More reading at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory
Bob
just got a new Thumb Drive... my 6th one..
i'm using it a lot....
is there a Number of times it can be Plugged in and UnPlugged...???
is there a Number of times One can Write and Erase to the Drive???
Thank You for Your Help
David

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