Write amplification
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write-amplification-204-10832593
title:
Write amplification
text:
Write amplification (WA) is an undesirable phenomenon associated with flash memory and solid-state drives (SSDs) where the actual amount of information physically written to the storage media is a multiple of the logical amount intended to be written. Because flash memory must be erased before it can be rewritten, with much coarser granularity of the erase operation when compared to the write operation, the process to perform these operations results in moving user data and metadata more than on
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Phenomenon associated with solid state storage
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write_amplification
date created:
2010-06-01T00:55:05Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T02:30:16Z
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