Search results

The vast majority of consumer grade flash drives don't include wear level tracking and algorithms because they aren't needed for the intended purpose of the device (infrequent writes and frequent reads) Commercial/industrial grade flash does. SSD drives do as well and that's why I was...

I have no idea where you're getting your fuzzy math from. Doubling the size of the drive doesn't double the number of write operations! First of all, USB flash drives are good for between 10K and 100K write/delete operations, depending on the technology used. Are you under the impression that...

Yes I'm aware. I was comparing them to laptop/sata drives, designed for constant read/write, but do have moving oarts, and wouldn't last long as a destination for dash cam video.

My phone autocorrected. The Amazon link for the SSD is https://amazon.com/gp/product/B078SVRH4B

USB flash drives aren't designed for the constant, high speed, writing operations required for recording dash cam video. They are designed to be written infrequently and read repeatedly. They are great for music, but terrible for recording looping video. They only have so many write operations...