Wear Leveling with flash drives and USB sticks
A good two page article that describes how “wear leveling” works on flash and USB sticks. It covers static and dynamic wear leveling concepts. The article is high-level enough to grasp the concept even if you are not a file system guru.
What I find most interesting is that with this implemented in most flash drives and USB sticks, even if you are to wipe the flash drive using recommended ‘wipe’ methods, all or parts of the data could still be present and recovered.
Categories: Forensics
