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roc on May 7, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: I Want My Memory, Apple

I always assumed they were avoiding the non-trivial impact on lifespan of the internal flash.

kqr2 on May 7, 2009 [–]

They must use some wear leveling algorithm.

Also, this shouldn't really be much of a technical problem going forward since solid state drives clearly have swap space on them.

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