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explain wear leveling and why it is needed for ssds. we said that wear-leveling is important for the continual updating of virtual memory pagefiles. what problem does wear-leveling aggravate for pagefiles?

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s the term suggests, wear leveling provides a method for distributing program and erase cycles uniformly throughout all of the memory blocks within the SSD. This prevents continuous program and erase cycles to the same memory block, resulting in greater extended life to the overall NAND flash memory.

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