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What happens when a flash drive wears out?
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Flash memory has a limited number of read/write cycles, after which it fails. What happens when it fails? Is it like a hard drive, where a failed write is silently moved to another part of the disk and that sector marked as bad and never used again, without data loss? Are there a limited number of …
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Yes, they do very similar operations when sectors fail: both silently move sectors to unallocated area after failed write verification. Yes, their number is limited on both the memory types. There is just one, but important, difference: number of wr…
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