[merpkz]

What kind of intense read/write nature you are talking about in a video game console? It just reads the game ROM from storage and executes it, there is nothing to write back, the game is not being modified in any way while playing. All these talks about wearing out sdcards in game consoles or raspberry pi devices in my personal opinion are partially because of people encountering poor quality cards - counterfeits. There is an sdcard in my car camcorder which must have seen thousands of full write cycles and still has no issues functioning despite all the operating temperature differences it endures due to weather seasons.

[toast0]

Writes should be minimal yeah. But reads could be intense. My car has worn out two maps SD cards. One of them had a questionable chain of custody, but I went back to the almost certainly original card that came with the car, and it's starting to misbehave in the same ways, so I think it's only a matter of time. These cards are unwritable after factory initialization, so writes are definitely not a factor.

[progman32]

I understand that reads can technically cause read disturb, but isn't this normally handled by the controller? My intuition says that the writes caused by block rewrites should not significantly accelerate wear. I'd suspect more mundane issues such as bad solder, but would love to hear an expert take.