On Sat, 23 May 2015 09:45:45 +0000, Don Pearce wrote:

Can you wear an SSD this way? As I understand it they have an internal
OS that is constantly shifting the data around anyway, and putting in
some more from outside really doesn't make a great deal of difference.

'Constantly' is a bit rich - a block is only moved when flash memory
writes require it to happen. So the short answer is that every write to
flash storage reduces its remaining life.


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