Analysis of a Rewriting Compression System for Flash Memory
Shmuel T. Klein, Dana Shapira · 2016
Writing data on flash memory is asymmetric in the sense that it is possible to change a 0 into a 1-bit, but erasing a 1 back to value 0 is much more expensive and can only be done in blocks. This has triggered the development of rewriting codes in which new data can overwrite the old one, subject to the constraint of never changing a 1 into a zero.