OpenEuphoria

Re: How to install Euphoria on a USB flash drive?

• Posted by jacques deschênes <desja at globetrotter.net> Nov 25, 2005
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Vincent wrote:
> 
> Greg Haberek wrote:
> > 
> > > The only problem I have with running software off my flash drive is it ge=
> > ts fairly hot after a while; could I damage it by constantly using it?
> > 
> > I've had a Cruzer Mini 128 for two years now, and I was using it daily
> > for 4+ hours for a year, then I left it plugged into the back of my
> > computer for 6 months straight. Still works great!
> > 
> > ~Greg
> > 
> > 
> Heh, okay... I have a 256 MB Cruzer micro; I guess I worry to much. :P
> 
> Regards,
> Vincent

In fact flash memory worn out by writing to it but not by reading. That kind of
memory is best for write seldom/read often usage. Flash memory is organized in
blocks which are written as a whole. Modern flash memory have firmware in it to
distribute write cycles among the blocks to reduce worn out. So if a file is
modified, it is not written back at the same block but to another one that as
been less often rewritten.


regards,
jacques Deschênes