Over-provisioning – An SSD technology which means having spare flash cells ready to be used to replace existing cells as they wear out. See entry for Endurance technology. An excellent Samsung paper, “Over-Provisioning Benefits for Samsung Data Center SSDs,” discusses the why’s and wherefores of over-provisioning.
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