wear levelling

A form of wear leveling — A technique for extending the service life of some kinds of erasable storage media, such as flash memory, by arranging data so that erasures and rewrites are distributed evenly across the medium.

Meanings

nounwear levelling (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of wear leveling.
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