Re: Detecting the life of a USB flash drive?

"Mr. Man-wai Chang" <[email protected]>
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On 7/1/2026 1:46 pm, Paul wrote:
> 
> You wanted to detect a "substitution" of the item.
> .... 
> USB sticks are of such poor quality, that the
> manufacturer doesn't want you to know how much
> usage it has had. On one stick, I only got to
> write it with a DVD ISO about seven times, before
> it died. The flash should manage at least six hundred
> writes.
Other than never ever leave them on the table and walk away, I guess 
there will never ever a method to solve the problem.

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