By building heating into the flash memory design, Macronix thinks that flash memory cells could last 100 M write cycles rather than the 10 thousand or so cycles possible today with MLC flash memory.

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Even though the TLC cells have an erase-write rating of only 5, 000 cycles the company says the system provides an acceptable life using wear-leveling, write reduction and overprovisioning. (although we would like to see some field data on this) and provide a total storage capacity of up to 2 TB.

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