Terry Teachout (born February 6, 1956) is an American critic,[1] biographer,[2] librettist,[3] author, playwright,[4] and blogger. He is the drama critic of The Wall Street Journal, the critic-at-large of Commentary, and the author of Sightings, a column about the arts in America that appears biweekly in the Wall Street Journal.
In 2013, the site reported that 78% of its drives last longer than four years. That's not too bad, but it means that if you've been using your primary hard drive for five years, it might be time to look at a new oneâor at least back up anything important.
If you simply write data to a USB flash drive and put it away in a safe place for 10 years, it will work again and all the data will still be there. But if you continue to use it over and over again, it will definitely wear out eventually. USB Flash Drives Have Finite Number of Write/Erase Cycles. The life expectancy of a USB Flash Drive can be measured by the number of write or erase cycles. USB flash drives can withstand between 10,000 to 100,000 write/erase cycles, depending on the memory technology used.