Thread: Where does the N900 swap live?
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Milhouse is offline Milhouse
2009-10-04 , 18:39
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#9
Originally Posted by spock View Post
I'm not sure that's right. Modern flash is worse at cycling, and it's only getting worse as the lithography drops. Corwin was correct, spreading the writes across the whole card will significantly enhance the endurance, provided that it is actually done properly.
Seems to me that Corwin and GA are both right... the flash memory will wear level using free space, fill it up and wear levelling won't be so efficient (which is pretty much what GA is getting at). Mind you as long as the kernel implements TRIM the flash memory should be kept in good shape.