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[โ€“] abcdqfr@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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?

[โ€“] ms_lane@lemmy.world 1 points 2 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.