How (Not) To Damage A Flash Storage Device

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.waikato
Organization Geek Central
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
Came across this article
<http://wiki.laptop.org/go/How_to_Damage_a_FLASH_Storage_Device> on the
OLPC wiki about some of the things to beware of when reformatting a
flash device (USB stick or SD card -- what about SSDs?).

Basically, if there is a mismatch between the blocking of data at the
filesystem level and the device page size, then you could be increasing
the number of hardware-level writes by a factor of 2 or more. This
leads to a corresponding reduction in the life of the device.
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