Flash Drives
http://live.pirillo.com/ – Kevin wants to know is you really need to click the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon in Windows when you want to remove a portable flash drive?
Yes!
Windows sees the portable thumb drive as an actual drive. If you take the drive out while it’s in the middle of a read/write operation,. It could actually damage the data on the disk. You could end up the errors and the operating system may not be able to read any of the data on it.
Also keep in mind that flash drives have a shelf life. While they’re solid state, data can only be written to and read from so many times before it no longer functions the way it was intended to.
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One Comment
Shajan
June 20th, 2007
at 11:53am
Please can you enlighten more about this ! Whats the shelf life of a flash drive ?
“Also keep in mind that flash drives have a shelf life. While they’re solid state, data can only be written to and read from so many times before it no longer functions the way it was intended to.”
thanks,
shajan