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Wear Without Writes
One NVMe's reported wear sped up 4.5× the evening its writes almost stopped. Its spare blocks and error counters say the flash never noticed.
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One NVMe's reported wear sped up 4.5× the evening its writes almost stopped. Its spare blocks and error counters say the flash never noticed.
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An NVMe alert at 82% used life, on drives with full spare capacity and zero errors. The wear number turned out to be a clock, not an odometer.