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Re:Flash Drives Replace Disks at Amazon, Facebook, Dropbox by nirvana on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @03:45PM (#4108012)
Failure rates for flash drives seem to be driven by controller problems or bugs more than actually wearing out the flash. In order to avoid wearing out the flash they implemented very sophisticated software in the controller, and those controllers get wedged as a result (ironically.)
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Re:Flash Drives Replace Disks at Amazon, Facebook, Dropbox by qq66 on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @03:54PM (#4108067)
What do you mean by "wedged"?
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