Effect of partitioning on wear-leveling

[Jim Thompson]

> On Mar 21, 2016, at 4:41 PM, Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> Also, it's been my experience that it's impossible to "wear out" an
> sdcard.  I once ran a program that just wrote random data continuously
> at full speed to a 512MB card for several months nonstop.  No noticible
> effect on the card.  I actually still use that card today (in one of
> our older products whose filesystem image only needs about 40MB).

Now try random power fails while writing.  It won't last through 1000 of them. (eMMC is way better here.)