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Eeprom Wear Living FAQ - Flash - Drive - Wear - Leveling
Eeprom Wear Living FAQ - Flash - Drive - Wear - Leveling
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What is static wear leveling?
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This technique wear-levels over both dynamic and
static data areas (see figure 3). For example, an 8GB
Flash Voyager stores 3GB of MP3 music files. The
entire 8GB capacity can be used for wear leveling.
Reassigning static data is a more complex task than Will my Corsair USB Flash drive last
dynamic data because it requires multiple operations more than 10 years?
to safely move static data around. As a result, this Yes. All Corsair flash drives are built with memory
implementation may impact the overall write components that can handle AT LEAST 10,000 write
performance. cycles; typically they will handle an order of
magnitude more than this. So, this means that in
order to exhaust the drive in ten years, one would
have to write to EVERY BLOCK in the device about
2.7 times per day, every single day. We simply can’t
conceive of such a usage scenario; this would mean
that on a fairly typical 8 GByte drive, one would need
to write over 21 GBytes of data to it every day for ten
years! USB flash drives simply are not used in this
way.
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