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SSD write leveling?

SSD write leveling?

Posted Jul 4, 2008 13:52 UTC (Fri) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501)
In reply to: SSD write leveling? by Cato
Parent article: Acer's Linpus Linux Lite (Fedora) ultra portable laptop piles the pressure on Microsoft (FSM)

I don't understand his math.

First off, the limitation of number of writes is for a block. Not for a specific byte in a
block. Thus the worst load for a flash is not a sequesial logger. It is an application that
wries 1 then 0 and then 1 again to the same byte and does this to random bytes all over.

He later writes an explanation as to why that data recorder "does the fastest damage". But I
fail to folow the reasoning there.


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