Taking a Hard Look At SSD Write Endurance 267
New submitter jyujin writes "Ever wonder how long your SSD will last? It's funny how bad people are at estimating just how long '100,000 writes' are going to take when spread over a device that spans several thousand of those blocks over several gigabytes of memory. It obviously gets far worse with newer flash memory that is able to withstand a whopping million writes per cell. So yeah, let's crunch some numbers and fix that misconception. Spoiler: even at the maximum SATA 3.0 link speeds, you'd still find yourself waiting several months or even years for that SSD to start dying on you."
Re:Holy idiocy batman (Score:5, Funny)
Obviously the TLC NAND is named for the Tender Loving Care you need to give it during use.
I think the Slack Lazy Careless stuff is more robust.
Re: Tried It - Disappointed (Score:5, Funny)
No, magnetic tape is too vulnerable to EMP. He boots from punch card.
Re: Tried It - Disappointed (Score:4, Funny)
Fire susceptible.
I've implemented a filesystem on top of OpenCV that uses a laser to read bits carved into granite slabs.
If the laser fails, various sun alignments will allow the passive CdS sensor to take over, at a performance penalty of several years (about one IOP per year).
Re:Holy idiocy batman (Score:5, Funny)
17 December 2008.
5 years? Might as well write a white paper on the benefits of drum memory over mercury delay lines.