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Re: SSD performance article

Thank you. I had believed only writing caused wear.

John McKee.

On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 11:42 AM, John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 10:18 AM, Steinmetz, Paul <PSteinmetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
So writes, updates, deletes will reduce life expectancy.
Reads are fine?

For all intents and purposes, I think reads are fine in real-world
implementations. From the pure physics of it, reading does have a
more-than-zero chance of causing ill effects, but the controller
should be able to compensate:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory#Read_disturb

John Y.
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