On Wed, 2025-01-15 at 11:51 +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > Jeffrey Walton (12025-01-15): > > Using compression to minimize writes is part of a write leveling > > strategy to extend drive life. > > <https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+disk+write+leveling>. > > So you say, and all you have to quote for it is a Google search result > page. This is how far I am willing to discuss this.
NAND controllers utilizing real-time compression were somewhat common in early SATA SSDs more than 10 years ago. At least SandForce was known to do this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SandForce#Technology I have no idea whether modern NVME drives do this or not.
