• atro_city
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    36 months ago

    How long can they be used? Mine always wear out really quickly for some reason.

    • @[email protected]
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      36 months ago

      That does make me wonder how sd cards and ssd compare in terms of volume/tbw endurance. Does silicon have a typical lifespan per volume?

      • ms.lane
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        16 months ago

        Lifespan per NAND cell, which gets exponentially smaller with each extra ‘layer’ per cell. SLC can do billions of writes per cell, QLC is ~1000 writes per cell.