On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 05:15:55PM +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Henning Follmann wrote on 21/02/2024 14:16: > > On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 12:00:17PM +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > <snip> > > > Somewhere I read, for maintainance of an SSD all it's cells should be read > > > from time to time like this > > > > > > sudo dd if=/dev/DEVICE of=/dev/null bs=8M status=progress > > > > Where did you read that? That seems like a huge waste of time. > > > As far as I remember, the idea behind this suggestion is to help the SSD > firmware detect bad blocks or cells early on and to mask them out. Of > course, a good firmware with it's wear leveling algorithm > (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wear_leveling) should do this by itself. > You didn't answer where you read that. I would be interested in that. I do not claim to be an expert on this and I would like to understand it better.
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