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Necessity of overprivisioning a flash drive?

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USB flash drives typically don't overprovision or even wear-level.

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To be specific, it is a Sandisk CZ880. The spec sheet on WD does not specified which controller it employed.

Assumed it is a Marvell, is it still necessnary to overprovisioning 10% of it?

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USB flash drives typically don't overprovision or even wear-level.

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