When a USB Flash Drive Wears Out

2048Megabytes

2048Megabytes

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Anyone have any experience of what happens a USB flash drive wears out?

I have a three year old 128 megabyte Lexar Jump Drive that seems to be getting loose in USB ports since it has been used so much. Will the flash drive just eventually get so loose that it will fall out of USB ports?
 
I've never had a flash drive literally fall out, but it did eventually stop connecting to the computer alltogether.
 
using sources other than wiki each sector has about 10,000 writes/erase lifetime. so if you fill it up and delete it entirely each day then it should die within 37 years

not sure what "mid range" flash drives are but using wiki's 100,000 write rule will make it 370 years which is even better.

from wiki:
Like all flash memory devices, flash drives can sustain only a limited number of write and erase cycles before failure. Mid-range flash drives under normal conditions will support several hundred thousand cycles, although write operations will gradually slow as the device ages. This should be a consideration when using a flash drive to run application software or an operating system.
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usb ports wear overtime. my antec 900 usb ports were hard as a rock to use at first but now slides in easily
 
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