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[–] atro_city@fedia.io 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] 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?

[–] 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.