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Bring worn out (?) USB stick back to old performance

I've got a USB stick (SanDisk Cruzer Facet 64G) which seems to be worn out. I had filled it to the brim with a lot of small-ish files (500kB each), which went well, no performance issues; and when I ...
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How does the FTL handle TRIM requests, and how do flash drives work when they don't support it?

(Moved from a question on StackOverflow. TL;DR: I would like to know how modern flash drives and SSDs (the Samsung T5 doesn't seem to support TRIM, for instance) handle deleted data. Do they have a ...
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Can I emulate TRIM by writing all zeros?

Before an SSD sector1 was ever written to, it looks like all filled with zeros. So, if I write all zeros to a sector, for the purpose of functionality, it will look just like a free one. Thus the ...
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