In a practical sense? This will probably never affect flash memory in any way unless you used it as swap space for a Dell computer running Windows XP with 128M of RAM.

LOL! one word "MS-Vista".

to elaborate in case you haven't seen it - the current build of vista amalgamates all read/writable "disk space" for swap files and caching including any thumbdrives that have the misfortune of being plugged in to it. oh how slow it goes when it tries to do swap files to your poor little USB thumb drive you've just pugged in!
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