The truth is writing about the agony of Flash is an easy way to draw readers , a much easier way than to adopt a nuanced stance.

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The top layer is a 48 GB cache for organizing the writing of data for better utilization of the flash memory in the other layers.

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But Flash predictably wears out because of the amount of the writing you do.

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Flash as a form of solid state storage is much faster for reading and writing data than the spinning disks in traditional disk drives.

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