Firmware shmirmware. Back when I bought an IBM PC, using some
instruction from a Peter Norton book and the C programming
language, I wrote directly to video memory. The operating system
deals directly with hardware drivers. Just because wear leveling
is done by firmware, doesn't mean it does it all.
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Zaphod Beeblebrox <Zaphod.Arisztid.Beeblebrox
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> On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:43:59 +0000 (UTC), "John Doe"
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>> Anybody who's done any reading about SSDs knows about wear
>> leveling. But as any technically inclined user knows, an algorithm
>> doesn't always cover every base. The (pagefile.sys) is different
>> from practically every other file in Windows. I have searched
>> hard, but not found anything conclusive or authoritative about an
>> SSD handling (pagefile.sys).
>
> That's because (as any technically inclined user knows) pagefile.sys is
> a file. To the storage medium, a file is a file, no matter what
> purpose the OS puts it to. Wear leveling is done in the SSD firmware,
> which sees any file write the same as any other so wear leveling
> applies.
>
> --
> Zaphod
>
> "Yeah. Listen, I'm Zaphod Beeblebrox, my father was Zaphod Beeblebrox
> the Second, my grandfather Zaphod Beeblebrox the Third..."
>
> "What?"
>
> "There was an accident with a contraceptive and a time machine. Now
> concentrate!"
>