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Originally Posted by NicolasF View Post
That's obviously a lot but we don't know the exact figures for the SSD used in the N900 and we don't know how efficient is the algorithm (specially if the SSD has less empty space).
It doesn't work that way, the wear leveling is done on the level of the device (one of the advantages of it being an eMMC and not a plain NAND flash). It will shuffle blocks around reading and writing them in a manner that they all have a rougly same number of writes. The device doesn't even *know* about empty space (that's a filesystem level thing), it's all just blocks from it's perspective. Also note that wear leveling is just a part of the strategy, there are spare blocks, error correction algorithms, etc.
 

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