Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> Well, well... It appears one of our employees kept "everything" on a USB
>> flash drive. And guess what? Yah, that's right. Now every time she tries
>> to use that drive, it says the drive isn't formatted.
> 
> Flash drive? Do you really mean flash memory, or just a USB hard disk with
> the normal magnetic system?
> 
> Flash memory does "wear out". Write cycles are more limited than you may
> expect.
> 

Our equipment uses CF cards and you'd be surprised at how long they can 
last, given that the equipment constantly writes production logs to the 
card among other things. We do occasionally replace them, but only after 
a couple of years in service at a minimum.

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