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Flash Destroyer Tests Limit of Solid State Storage
An anonymous reader writes "We all know that flash and other types of solid state storage can only endure a limited number of write cycles. The open source Flash Destroyer prototype explores that limit by writing and verifying a solid state storage chip until it dies. The total write-verify cycle count is shown on a display — watch a live video feed and guess when the first chip will die. This project was inspired by the inevitable comments about flash longevity on every Slashdot SSD story. Design files and source are available at Google Code."
I'm personally convinced it's just another round of Memory Company Collusion, like the whole rambus thing.
Honestly the price of ALL memory has gone up between 20 and 100 percent in the past year (go look at ddr2/ddr3 prices, they're the same or HIGHER than they were last year. 4 gigs for 50 bucks a year ago, 2 gigs for 45 bucks now. There was an overlap period on newegg where UNREGISTERED ECC DDR3 @ 1333 was CHEAPER than Non-ECC consumer sticks by 10-20 bucks for the same capacity. Obviously that has since changed, but the point is memory is suspiciously going up in price while most other consumer hardware is still on the way down.)