On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 12:26 AM, t.piwowar <t...@tjpa.com> wrote: > On Sep 19, 2009, at 11:07 PM, Robert Carroll wrote: > >> Based on my experience, I would advise against trusting a "thumb drive" or >> a memory chip to store data over the long run. A month or two, probably OK. >> > > Yes indeed. Data stored on flash drives can vanish in a flash. Isn't that > why we call them flash drives? > > Flash drives have a limited number of read write cycles and that might be what you ran into. -- John Duncan Yoyo -------------------------------o)
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