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Cake day: January 19th, 2026

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  • If I recall correctly, this has to do with how NAND flash storage stores the data on the physical media. I think trimming in SSDs performs some kind of maintenance in this regard but it all has to do with that the cells storing the bits (which make up the data) have a limited lifetime of being written to.

    After a while, it will stop being able to write to specific cells in the media and the drive eventually “fails”. I think the way the drives work is they try to actively not write to the cell as often to increase the longevity of the drive. So when it gets filled up, maybe it’s trying to calculate more with less available cells? Not sure why else.