number of flash memory die connected simultaneously. Operations are limited to the speed of the individual flash memory die. In contrast, a high-performance solid-state drive will have more dies organized with parallel communication paths to enable speeds many times greater than that of a single flash die.

Wear-leveling and block picking

Flash memory can withstand a limited number of program-erase cycles. If a particular flash memory block were programmed and erased repeatedly without writing to any other blocks, the one block

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