How long will 1.5 gigabytes last?

Answer 1

Physically it could be a few months to a few years to a hundred years. It's a solid state device which as a general rule has a rather long lifespan.

Logically it really depends on which architecture and operating system you use. In terms of Linux probably 10+ years and Windows um yesterday unless you still use 98, 2000 and to a lesser degree XP.

Answer 2

1. If you mean the life of memory chips in computer motherboards, they are lifetime components that don't wear out.

2. If you mean "flash" memory chips, these have a large-but-limited number of read-write operations, depending on the type.

This includes removable USB/Stick memory chips *and* the chips they are now using to replace hard disk drives in iPods, laptops and PDAs.

3. If you mean "how long before 1.5 GB is too small to run the latest operating system and games" - no-one knows.

The first personal computers held only 16 kilobytes (16 384 bytes!), and worked OK for what they did.

Software demands drive processor speed and memory demand, so there's no clear answer to this particular question.

Answer 3

That will depend on the interface speed. There is no single answer.

Answer 4

Longer than a second