[Tfug] Small-ish (capacity + size) disk alternatives

[Nick Lopez]

On Jan 30, 2013, at 12:25 AM, Bexley Hall <bexley401 at yahoo.com> wrote:

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>> http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?271063-SSD-Write-Endurance-25nm-Vs-34nm

  So what I gather from this link is if you set out to make a custom program to try and destroy a small MLC SSD by constantly writing random data. you can succeed in two months of 24/7 abuse. 
  One of the big tech review / forum sites (Tom's Hardware, Anandtech sort) did a real world test as part of a data center migration and found that in the database server for the forums they're updates would burn out a single consumer grade SSD in 6-9 months. I wish I could find the article again.
 I suspect you're greatly overestimating your abusiveness, and under-estimating the SSD controller's efforts to mitigate the abuse. This is just on the cheap $1/GB consumer drives, the enterprise SSDs with SLC or eMLC flash are rated for significantly more and are still way cheaper than RAM.

   - nick



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