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zozbot234today at 5:58 PM0 repliesview on HN

> reading the flash causes the row to be rewritten

This only happens very rarely, though more frequently as NAND flash goes QLC and beyond.

Besides, other experiments have shown that data remanence is way more of an issue with drives that are almost completely worn out (way beyond their specified TBW) and about to croak. Even then you only get rare bitrot that can be checked for and compensated quite cheaply in most cases.

If you take fresh media, write it just once or a few times at most, use substantial overprovisioning to keep the drive in its fast pseudo-SLC mode, and reread the media periodically, NAND can be a good enough storage system for most casual needs.