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>>A three-year warranty means it's -expected- to break. SOON.
NAND breaks down after a few thousand writes per cell. It doesn't have the same problem when reading data.
Unless there is an infinite supply of replacement cells the device is going to fail eventually.
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>>A three-year warranty means it's -expected- to break. SOON.
NAND breaks down after a few thousand writes per cell. It doesn't have the same problem when reading data.
Unless there is an infinite supply of replacement cells the device is going to fail eventually.