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

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <4EEFB9F3.80603 at feral.com>, Matthew Jacob writes:
>On 12/19/2011 2:22 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> 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.
>
>No, sorry, that's not really true.

Pray tell!

There will always be charge leakage, but last I talked to
silicon-pushers, that was (almost) entirely independent of read-access
and correlated strongly with temperature*duration.

Obviously, if your flash controller lies to you and do needless writes
anyway, we are not talking read-only.

Those are the only two effects I know of ?


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