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userbinator on Feb 17, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Considerations for a long-running Raspberry Pi

Flash memory manufacturers are notoriously secretive about the actual endurance of their products, likely because it's now embarrassingly low.

Specifying endurance in "thousands of hours of FHD video" implies large sequential writes, or in other words the best-case for write amplification.

dannyw on Feb 17, 2024 [–]

They also substitute parts all the time. Even the “best” brands have been known to do this. From different controllers to swapping TLC for QLC flash.

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