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You're forgetting that SSDs use virtual addressing so writes are distributed relatively equally over the whole drive. Even data that is written once and never c
by slaymaker1907 5y ago
You're forgetting that SSDs use virtual addressing so writes are distributed relatively equally over the whole drive. Even data that is written once and never changed logically will probably move around on the SSD due to garbage collection. The virtualization algorithms are kept relatively secret, but I assume good SSDs will move full unchanged blocks around occasionally to distribute write load more equally on the physical blocks.
- wtallis 5y agoYep, wear leveling actually works. On some SSDs, there are SMART indicators to tell you the average, max and min block erase counts, so you can see for yourself that the erase counts are all about the same across the entire drive.
- phkahler 5y ago>> I assume good SSDs will move full unchanged blocks around occasionally to distribute write load more equally on the physical blocks. I hadn't considered that. Make sense. Better to move never-changing data to blocks that are still good but not worn out so those available writes can be utilized.