Would it be possible to play the game off a USB Flash Drive?

[Soukyuu]

Assuming a "read disturb" really occurs if you "read too much" as that quote implies, wouldn't that be a huge flaw of both flash drives and SSDs? It doesn't make sense. If it's really a flaw of this technology, then they must have something to counter it, like a read/write cache.

Still, a read disturb looks like a form of read error - it doesn't wear out the flash chip itself, only the data on it.

edit: look at this, slide 19: http://download.micron.com/pdf/prese...ruths_nand.pdf

Read disturb is handled by ECC - not an issue to the user and does not damage the cells.

Now, the question is, do flash drives have ECC built in? Cheap ones certainly do not, but I can imagine SSDs and more expensive flash drives having it.

edit2: those slides are pretty interesting if you want to know more about NAND (flash) memory...

[Coldfire]

That's what the "ERASE" is for. New SSDs refresh the data on themselves periodically to avoid this error. A flash drive usually doesn't have this feature. Flash drives are supposed to be used as data storage for rarely accessed data and not stuff like operating systems or games.