Due to the additional write cycles that occur on a full-blown installation, the life of the flash drive may be slightly reduced.

In this way, no single erase block prematurely fails due to a high concentration of write cycles.

There are also issues regarding the maximum number of writes to each sector; often specified as 100,000 write cycles.

Also, flash memory allows far fewer write cycles than a hard disk.

In addition to stand-alone poems, Howard also wrote cycles of poetry.

So the multilevel cells have about one-tenth the write cycles.

He also wrote several cycles of piano pieces, Opp.

However, Microdrives typically have a longer lifespan of write cycles than flash memory.

So you can get 100,000 write cycles out of them.

So you really don't want to defrag because that's needlessly writing to a technology which has a limited number of write cycles.