XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.linux.misc   
   From: nv@linux.rocks   
      
   On Fri, 27 Sep 2024 21:32:07 -0400, Paul wrote:   
      
   >   
   > Once you get up to a certain size, they tend to use SSD controllers   
   > inside, then a USB converter connected to that. This can radically   
   > improve the storage characteristic. The SSD controller has static   
   > and dynamic wear leveling. Very few USB sticks have that in a USB   
   > controller (but there are some).   
   >   
      
   The fact that wear leveling and trimming are required only indicates   
   that SSD is an inferior and useless technology.   
      
   Superior and stable NAND ICs are available but they are enormously   
   expensive and the grubbing capitalists that control the consumer market   
   would never consider them.   
      
   This is the reason that I do not use SSDs of any kind and still use   
   only HDD spinning rust on all my machines.   
      
   For long-term storage SSDs are simply unthinkable.   
      
      
      
      
      
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