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Can flash memory be physically damaged if power is interrupted while writing?

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Mar 15, 20269214 views
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If data is actively being written to a flash memory device, can a memory cell (or perhaps the entire memory device) be physically damaged if power is removed, or will data simply be corrupted? Can the affected device or memory block still be written to and read from (even if the data itself is corr…

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Here is a paper about errors caused by power failure on flash memory: http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/users/swanson/papers/DAC2011PowerCut.pdf I cite the last sentence of the abstract: Finally, we show that incomplete erase operations make future program ope…

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