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Old 06-25-2019, 09:57 AM   #7
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Location: Ely, Cambridgeshire, UK
Device: Kindle Oasis 3, Kindle Oasis 1
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Originally Posted by NiLuJe View Post
I honestly think you shouldn't actually worry about that at all.
Definitely not. Modern flash, even the cheap stuff in Kindles and the ultra-cheap stuff in USB sticks, is quite capable of coping with a really rather significant number of writes without problems. Unless you're filling up the entire Kindle every few days, just ignore it.

(I too was worried about this when I got my first server with an SSD, used for disk caching: I made a mistake and bought a read-biased one rather than write-biased, rated at 1/3rd device write per day for three years, and panicked over the likely rapid failure, because it's a complete sod to change. I was *much* too paranoid:

EnduranceAnalyzer : 755.71 years

Sure, this is a much more expensive and larger SSD -- it cost twice as much as the Oasis on its own -- but it's also far more heavily written to. Judging by the low number of reports of flash failure we see here, I suspect the flash on an Oasis will outlast most of the moving parts -- i.e. the buttons and the screen, which does after all have spinning droplets in it -- and the battery as well.)
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