What is wear leveling? | Definition from TechTarget
Dynamic vs. static wear leveling
There are two types of SSD wear leveling: dynamic and static. Dynamic wear leveling pools erased blocks and selects the block with the lowest erase count for the next write. The downside of dynamic wear leveling is that if a block holds data that is not accessed, it is never moved to a different block. This limits the number of blocks undergoing wear leveling in an SSD.
Static wear leveling operates like dynamic wear leveling, but it also ensures that blocks of static data are moved when their block erase count falls below a certain threshold. This additional step of moving data can slow write performance due to overhead on