Effect of partitioning on wear-leveling

[Brett Glass]

At 09:34 PM 3/21/2016, bob prohaska wrote:

>How do modern flash devices report end of life? Do problems show up in error
>logs, or does the device simply refuse to work with no warning?

Depends upon the device. SSDs will give you a warning via SMART; they will
begin to retire blocks and swap in reserved blocks. Simpler devices 
such as memory
cards and USB sticks will simply die. I use SSDs in 
mission-critical applications,
so that I have at least a fighting chance of replacing them before 
there's an outage.

--Brett Glass