can a wrong alignment cause a decrease in a hdd's life expectancy?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20111219221617.GA70383 at freebsd.org>, Alexander Best writes:

>ps: the hdd only gets mounted read-only!

There is no known wear-effects in flash storage as long as you
only read.

You may need to do refresh-writes every 5-10 years to avoid
tunnel-leakage bit errors, but most flash controllers use semi-long
ECC syndromes and will do so on first bit that gives an read error.

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