I am not sure this is true anymore.starhawk wrote: Flash media such as USB flash drives and SD cards are what are called "unmanaged" media. The controllers in those do not have the sophisticated wear-leveling (etc) algorithms that an SSD has.
I did a search on some of the major USB flash drive manufacturers web sites.
Some state that their flash drives do have some form of wear-leveling built into the flash drives controller.
Also, that it is getting to be the norm.
Example:
From Sandisk web site forums
http://forums.sandisk.com/t5/All-SanDis ... d-p/339714
i would like to inform you that all the flash drives have the wear levelling algorithm inside that prevents the data to be written to the same blocks all the time.
Which kind of wear leveling do Corsair
drives use?
Corsair’s flash drives typically use dynamic wear-
leveling. The reason for this is that dynamic wear-
leveling is less complicated to implement, and
provides endurance that is more than adequate for
consumer flash drive applications.