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Didn't mention read disturbance. MLC and TLC flash (esp. the latter) have semi-destructive reads, so that you need to re-write a block after several thousand reads as well as on any write.

So you can't treat a drive as a ROM, even if you disabled physical writes somehow. Of course, you probably have enough read cycles available to do quite a few full scans of a drive...



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