Comments on: Hector asks, “Do I have to eject USB drives?” /2014/07/hector-asks-eject-usb-drives/ Tech news worth talking about and tech help worth listening to Sat, 25 Feb 2017 19:14:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.3.28 By: Richard Becker /2014/07/hector-asks-eject-usb-drives/#comment-2262 Thu, 03 Jul 2014 18:47:07 +0000 http://deemable.com/?p=9008#comment-2262 I was unaware of the limited number of times that a flash drive can be written to and am wondering if this applies to mass flash storage units such as in my MacBook Pro, which uses flash memory instead of a hard drive. Also, I’m not sure how secure delete, which normally overwrites a sector many times, works with Flash Memory. Will these multiple overwrites affect the life of the drive?

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