SSDs and their NAND must be maintained and kept at an even wear level. This is achieved through garbage collection, maintenance, wear leveling, and TRIM optimization. There are also important distinctions between data-in-flight and data-at-rest which also involves the SLC/pSLC cache.
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- Garbage Collection (GC)
- Wear Leveling
- TRIM
- Data Recovery
- Data-in-Flight
- Data-at-Rest