RollerCam540
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I just found out today that USB flash drives live for approximately thirty thousand cycles. In case you are wondering, a “cycle” constitutes as a read or write. There is an ongoing debate as to whether or not the lifespan of a flash drive is diminished by leaving it connected to a computer for extended periods of time. If you’re like me and you keep important files on a flash drive then a weekly CD-R backup is a must (not CD-RW’s or floppies because they continually lose their integrity with each re-write).