Are there tools to probe flash controllers for usage history?

[Jon Pruente]

On Jan 14, 2008 9:16 PM, Oren Beck <orenbeck at gmail.com> wrote:
> 1. IS a device with 80% of it's estimated "life" used still "Stable" for
> archive use? Defined as whatever data is the "Last Writes" remaining stable
> for the same # of years as a written to "less" device or not. With
> qualifiers on confidence levels and non-obvious issues.
>
> 2. Agreement on flag or bit to declare a flash device "Archive" .

AFAIK the device can be read as often as desired with no degradation.
Thus, anything less than 99.999% life used up should be fine.  Of
course the lifetimes are estimates of averages anyway...

Jon.