Is there a way (or software) that can determine the life of a USB flash drive? or does it just fail with no warning?
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USB Flash Drive life
Started by Pfipps, Oct 02 2007 04:49 AM
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Posted 02 October 2007 - 09:29 AM
Apparantly HD Tune may be able to test the condition of it.
See the manual link on right.
http://www.hdtune.com/
See the manual link on right.
http://www.hdtune.com/
CCLEANER, RECUVA, DEFRAGGLER AND SPECCY DOCUMENTATION CAN BE FOUND HERE
http://www.piriform.com/docs
http://www.piriform.com/docs
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Posted 15 October 2007 - 07:26 AM
Flash drives have redundant spaces to allow for some failure - youd need a special firmware reader to identify if the firmware has any known bad blocks its not writing too anymore and the ones I know of are proprietary. With wear levelling these days it wont wear out quick anyway.
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Posted 21 October 2007 - 09:32 AM
Hi Pfipps 
I started a topic that may provide some useful Info http://forum.pirifor...showtopic=11774 mainly to find out about defraging flash drives, and if it had any positive or negative results "reduced life" of the device.
I started a topic that may provide some useful Info http://forum.pirifor...showtopic=11774 mainly to find out about defraging flash drives, and if it had any positive or negative results "reduced life" of the device.
