Hi Mike,

>Hi Jim
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>http://www.answers.com/topic/keydrive
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>I have seen a VFP program actually exceed the number of writes.

What do you mean here?... Get into trouble when trying to write to a USB stick?
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>Further it was - back a few years ago - way way slower than a regular HD.

Well a few years back may not have been USB2, which can make a big difference.
I would expect a USB2 stick to be fast 'enough' compared to a real HD if there are a few open TMP files of some size, simply because there is no rotation or head positioning to wait for and these are the loonnngggg parts of HD I/O. While a USB2 stick does transfer data a lot slower, my expectation is that it should be easily made up for by the the other factors.

cheers

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>>The new Vista feature got me to wondering if VFP might benefit from writing TEMP files to a USB2 stick rather to an HD... no latency, no seek, etc.
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>>I don't think VFP makes it practical to do in a real-life user shop scenario, but nevertheless it would be an interesting exercise.
>>It might also help to make more discernible just when VFP actually writes TMP data.