What is Wear leveling?

A technique that spreads writes so rewrites do not concentrate on particular flash blocks, extending the memory's life.

Field: SRAM and flash memory

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Questions that mention Wear leveling (3)

  1. What is the purpose of wear leveling, used in SSDs and similar devices?
  2. Which memory is mainly used in USB flash drives and SD cards?
  3. Which is closest to the typical endurance (number of rewrite cycles) of SLC NAND flash memory?

Related terms

SLC (single-level cell) NAND flash memory TLC (triple-level cell) 3D NAND 6T SRAM cell Charge-trap cell Floating gate Fowler-Nordheim tunneling Garbage collection Nonvolatile memory

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