GIGAZINE

Research results show that 'wear leveling,' a technology for extending the durable life of SSDs, is not effective.

SSDs, which have rapidly become widespread as storage in recent years, reach the end of their life at the upper limit of the number of writes, unlike HDDs that can theoretically be used permanently ...
PC Magazine

wear leveling

Writing data to different flash memory locations in order to evenly distribute the wear on the cells. See SSD write cycle and flash memory. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other ...
Ars Technica

Using SSD as cloned backup - will the firmware handle wear leveling?

I have an Intel 660p NVME drive. I anticipate replacing it with a Samsung 970 EVO Plus soon. I'd like to use the Intel as a backup by cloning to it regularly (via NVME to USB case/adapter). I'll use ...
EDN

The drive for SSDs: What’s holding back NAND flash?

In order to maintain acceptable performance characteristics at the user-level, storage systems designers for solid state drives (SSDs) have had to develop complex architectures and algorithms to work ...
Electronic Design

Microkernel RTOS Adds Wear-Level Flash Memory Manager

Microkernel RTOS Adds WearLevel Flash Memory Manager Green Hills Software's �µ-velOSity 2.2 small-footprint real-time operating system (RTOS) uses as little as 1600 bytes of program memory and 1000 ...