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Re:Considerations for a long-running Raspberry Pi by userbinator on Saturday February 17, 2024 @05:35AM (#39408229)
Flash memory manufacturers are notoriously secretive about the actual endurance of their products, likely because it's now embarrassingly low.

Specifying endurance in "thousands of hours of FHD video" implies large sequential writes, or in other words the best-case for write amplification.

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Re:Considerations for a long-running Raspberry Pi by dannyw on Saturday February 17, 2024 @10:00AM (#39410012)
They also substitute parts all the time. Even the “best” brands have been known to do this. From different controllers to swapping TLC for QLC flash.
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