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The USB stick reference is mostly bad tech journalism. For raw flash media itself, 3000 cycles is in the right ballpark for multi-level NAND Flash. For whole US
by dv_dt 11y ago
The USB stick reference is mostly bad tech journalism. For raw flash media itself, 3000 cycles is in the right ballpark for multi-level NAND Flash. For whole USB sticks or SSDs, many mechanisms are in place so that a user doesn't need to worry about the specific 3000 cycle life of a specific chunk of flash.