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Update: This popular deal is still available from a new seller.
Beach Camera [beachcamera.com] has Lexar 128GB JumpDrive V100 USB 3.0 Flash Drive (V100128G-1) for $10.99. Shipping is free.
deal [buydig.com] OOS
$11 + free s/h
they also have 32GB [buydig.com] for $4.50 + free s/h
OOS
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In general, I've been pretty unimpressed with the longevity of flash drives. They seem to burn out fairly quick. $5 doesn't seem to be a bad price at all for a try, but I just wish Amazon had it for this price. I think the 32gb(?) is about $8 there. Not sure if Amazon would price match Buydig. If something went wrong, I'd be more comfortable with the return process on Amazon, as well as a negative review there potentially having more reach, and more power
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Individual flash cells can't sustain many writes. Far fewer than what an average hard drive writes. If the writes aren't evenly distributed, which is the case in real world usage, then some cells will get alot more writes than others and they'll die faster.
Wear leveling spreads writes uniformly across all the cells, even if the same file is written to over and over. To the file system it looks like it's writing to the same place, but the flash controller maps it to different cells each time.
Cheap flash storage doesn't do that because, well, it costs money to add that feature.
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Individual flash cells can't sustain many writes. Far fewer than what an average hard drive writes. If the writes aren't evenly distributed, which is the case in real world usage, then some cells will get alot more writes than others and they'll die faster.
Wear leveling spreads writes uniformly across all the cells, even if the same file is written to over and over. To the file system it looks like it's writing to the same place, but the flash controller maps it to different cells each time.
Cheap flash storage doesn't do that because, well, it costs money to add that feature.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08HQ8P...HZ1R?
In general, I've been pretty unimpressed with the longevity of flash drives. They seem to burn out fairly quick. $5 doesn't seem to be a bad price at all for a try, but I just wish Amazon had it for this price. I think the 32gb(?) is about $8 there. Not sure if Amazon would price match Buydig. If something went wrong, I'd be more comfortable with the return process on Amazon, as well as a negative review there potentially having more reach, and more power
EDIT: nevermind. it was the 32G model that was 4.50. I guess this is pretty slick after all.
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