• atro_city
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    33 months ago

    How long can they be used? Mine always wear out really quickly for some reason.

    • @abcdqfr@lemmy.ml
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      33 months ago

      That does make me wonder how sd cards and ssd compare in terms of volume/tbw endurance. Does silicon have a typical lifespan per volume?

      • ms.lane
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        13 months ago

        Lifespan per NAND cell, which gets exponentially smaller with each extra ‘layer’ per cell. SLC can do billions of writes per cell, QLC is ~1000 writes per cell.