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Dynamic wear leveling

Dynamic wear leveling distributes wear through placement of incoming writes among eligible free flash blocks.

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Low-erase blocks can be preferred, but unchanged data stays put under this mechanism alone. Balancing may be limited to a firmware-defined group. [1]

Relations

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Wear leveling, Static wear leveling, Flash translation layer (FTL), NAND erase block

Citations

  1. KIOXIA. Understanding Wear Leveling in NAND Flash Memory. February 2023, revision 1.0, pp. 1-2. (accessed 2026-10-18)

Further reading

  1. Hesela: Wear Leveling, mechanisms and tradeoffs (accessed 2026-10-18)

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