Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother

From	Paul <nospam@needed.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.mobile.android, alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.microsoft.windows
Subject	Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother
Date	2024-10-24 14:42 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On Thu, 10/24/2024 1:15 PM, Andrews wrote:
> Paul wrote on Thu, 24 Oct 2024 03:20:49 -0400 :
> 
>> You would buy an SD card with static and dynamic wear leveling.
> 
> Hi Paul,
> Thanks for that advice. I don't even know what that means. On Amazon, they don't tell you that in the product information.
> My choices were Lexar or Sandisk. I chose the (cheaper) Lexar.
> 
> But should I of given that I need "wear leveling" for that card???
> 
> Putting my glasses on & my magnifying glass to the package, I still can
> barely read the print - and it's too wide for the macro lens to snap a
> single photo of, so I'll create a mosaic with the macro so you can see all
> the fine print and funny-looking sdcard-specific-emoji (sdoji?).

The information is hard to get.

The Tech Support at the SD company, are mostly clueless.

When an SD has both static and dynamic wear leveling, it
then had the endurance of a SATA SSD drive. You get 600 writes
to every location on the device. The wear is evened out.

A USB flash stick, some seem to have nothing. A few too many
writes to low addresses, and you burn right through it. This
means at USB flash stick death, location 0 has 600 writes
while location 0xFFFFFFFF has zero writes. As does 0xFFFFFFFE.
Much of the upper media section of the device is still
waiting for the first write. And in reality, as near as I
can determine, you're not even getting 600 writes. It's a
pathetic lower number. This happens for TLC or QLC flash,
while the MLC or SLC we can no longer get, that lasts a lot longer.

For any device, we would like that feature. There is a Patriot
(and there are other brands) of USB stick that have an SSD inside
and a USB to SATA adapter chip. And those have both features
and support TRIM.

While some discussion threads, attempt to discuss which
limited model numbers of Sd devices have the feature, there is
no one to verify the info and tell us what we're buying.

This is why I quick format, plug in, and carry on with life.
because I'm not going to find anyone with the answer.

Do backups every once in a while.

   Paul

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Using Windows to make Android smoother Andrews <andrews@spam.net> - 2024-10-23 21:54 +0000
  Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2024-10-24 03:20 -0400
    Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2024-10-24 16:12 +0200
      Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother "...winston" <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2024-10-24 13:20 -0400
        Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother Harry S Robins <stanleyrobins@nothere.uk> - 2024-10-24 13:00 -0500
          Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother "...winston" <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2024-10-24 14:12 -0400
          Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2024-10-26 12:10 +0200
            Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2024-10-26 15:56 +0200
            Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2024-10-26 14:09 -0400
              Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2024-10-28 16:53 +0100
                Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2024-11-01 09:19 +0100
        Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2024-10-24 14:33 -0400
    Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother Andrews <andrews@spam.net> - 2024-10-24 17:15 +0000
      Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2024-10-24 14:42 -0400
  Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother Andrews <andrews@spam.net> - 2024-10-24 17:35 +0000
    Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother "...winston" <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2024-10-24 14:35 -0400
  Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother Andrews <andrews@spam.net> - 2024-10-25 18:41 +0000
  Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother Andrews <andrews@spam.net> - 2024-11-01 06:26 +0000
    Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother Andrews <andrews@spam.net> - 2024-11-01 13:56 +0000

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