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On Tue, 26 Nov 2019, Andrea Vai wrote:

> Then I started another set of 100 trials and let them run tonight, and 
> the first 10 trials were around 1000s, then gradually decreased to 
> ~300s, and finally settled around 200s with some trials below 70-80s. 
> This to say, times are extremely variable and for the first time I 
> noticed a sort of "performance increase" with time.
> 

The sheer volume of testing (probably some terabytes by now) would 
exercise the wear leveling algorithm in the FTL.

This in itself seems unlikely to improve performance significantly. But if 
the flash memory came from a bad batch, perhaps it would have that effect.

To find out, someone may need to source another (genuine) Kingston 
DataTraveller device.

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