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Write Amplification

Storage System] Increase in the number of write operations by the device beyond the number of write operations requested by hosts.

Examples: In flash storage this may happen because of garbage collection. In filesystems this may happen because writes to data blocks generally also require writes to inode blocks.

See JEDEC JESD218A,2/11

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