Without damaging the flash drive? Or should I first copy the document to the computer's hard drive, then edit and save it, and then save it back to the flash drive?
Can you write to a USB stick an infinite number of times?
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Of course it is. For the computer, the USB stick is just a data storage lot like any other.
In fact, USB sticks are, depending on the quality of the components, but apparently more susceptible to data loss due to aging, or if they are not read out for a long time.
https://www.datarettungexp.de/2017/02/14/datenloss-through-alterung-bei-usb-sticks/
https://www.computerwoche.de/a/so-lange-halt-daten-auf-usb-sticks-real,3615159
The USB stick has a life span of about 10 – 30 years. I actually have a few very old (about 20 years old) that still work. But I wouldn’t rely on it. I only use sticks as a means of transport.
Apart from that, it is always a good idea, especially if there is a lot of working time in a document, to temporarily store and have a backup copy on another medium (in your case the hard drive). There’s something going wrong ( accidentally deleted and recycle bin emptied, bugs on the USB interface, program crash and not intermediate storage…), and then you get angry that you didn’t make a few clicks more and can start hours of work from the front.
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That’s not true. Neither can data be processed directly on a storage medium, nor can flash memory cells be overwritten as often as desired.
For editing, the data is always loaded into the RAM and written back to the data carrier from there. This is done in the RAM and not directly on the data carrier. Otherwise, you would no longer need to temporarily store your work if any input and smallest change would already happen when editing a file, immediately and directly on the disk. Then the changes would be stored directly on the data carrier and do not need to be stored separately again.
Of course, you’re technically right. However, I have allowed myself to interpret the questioner’s question with regard to what he actually wants to know.
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Yes, but indirectly.
Loading to the RAM once there is enough,
otherwise there are outsourcing files.
Storage takes a little longer.
There’s nothing infinity.
At any rate, it depends on the quality of the stick.
Some thousand reading writing cycles should stop it.
But remember when the stick, why always, is broken,
then your documents are lost.
Ergo: always create a safety copy, not on the same stick.
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No data stored on USB stick or hard drive can be processed directly on the storage medium. To edit, they are always loaded into the RAM. This automatically makes the program you want to edit the files. When a file is opened in a program, it is automatically loaded into the RAM and it can be edited there and from there the edited file is stored back on the disk. There is no difference in what the file was saved for a data carrier.
No. Flash memory cells can survive only a certain number of write operations. At some point, the USB stick will break if you have written enough data on it. Each time data is written on the USB stick, the affected flash memory cells take a little further off until they finally refuse their service.
It doesn’t matter whether the data is repeatedly copied up to the stick and deleted from it, or whether files located on the stick are opened in a program and stored repeatedly from there. That’s the same thing.
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Yeah, but depending on what the stick has installed for a memory, that’s dangerous.
Every time Word saves – and this happens automatically every few minutes – the stick will be described. In FAT32 the SPeicher cells that contain the directory even at least 2x per write access!.
Flash memory wears by deleting the memory cells in order to be able to describe the new ones. An SSD always has “wear leveling”, often exchanges described storage areas for less often described. Thus, wear is distributed, even if the PC always wants to describe the same logical sector, the physical is always another.
USB sticks have this rare, few particularly expensive models have wear leveling.
This increases the risk that the document is suddenly broken or the file system of the stick suddenly fails when you write constantly on the stick.
Unfortunately, you can hardly predict that. It goes without any signs until it suddenly stops. This can only be predicted if you read the data sheets of all components in the stick and set calculations. With an unknown stick, the “sustainability” is just unknown.
Just buy an external SSD. It’s just as robust as an internal one. However, the operating system must assume that the plug can be pulled at any time and therefore it is always immediately described and not only stuff is collected for writing. So, as an external, it won’t last as long as it was installed internally, but that should take “years” before anything can get critical. Especially when there is always enough memory free, the “wear leveling” works well.
If the stick isn’t mega outdated or the USB port is wrecked, that should work. You can even start a computer from the USB stick only, so without SSD/HDD
Find it practically because without being dependent on the Internet I have changed the computer in seconds. Got 4 different laptops here. Do you know how long the stick survives under these conditions?
Come on to the stick. If he’s not from Wish and has little quality should last the years. But always close Word before you pull the stick
“always Word closen” ha ha, yes I do;)
Yes, you can edit Word documents on the USB stick. There are no problems
Once read that a stick can only handle X-thousand write accesses. That’s bullshit, isn’t it?
All disks e.g. SSD, HDD, USB,… have limited write holes. But in the normal case, that would not be a problem for a user.
My 1 TB SSD can write 47 Terabytes, and has only 256GB. I don’t think so, but I’ll never achieve that in half!
That’s what SSD writes in 188x. (Have not verified exactly whether the calculation agrees)
No, that’s true. But the number is so exorbitant high that you don’t have to consider it. This applies, by the way, to all storage media. So also for your PC. In this way you can ignore it and simply save it.
Of course, you should always backup your data to protect yourself from data loss.
More like X million.
Yes, I actually always do that at the end of a session on the current laptop I’m currently using. Many thanks
Perfect!
Infinitely, because a USB stick, in my knowledge, serves mainly as a transport medium for files.
Basically, that should go.