Process · Memory & Storage
Wear levelling
The policy that distributes program and erase cycles evenly across flash blocks so no block wears out early. Dynamic schemes only cycle free blocks, while static schemes also relocate cold data to free young blocks.
- Also known as
- Wear leveling
- Type
- Process
- Domain
- Memory & Storage, Storage systems
Notes
Without static wear levelling, rarely changed data pins fresh blocks and the rest of the array ages much faster.
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