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Flash Destroyer Tests Limit of Solid State Storage

Posted by timothy on from the step-right-up-place-your-bets dept.

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."

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  1. live stream by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    a live stream linked on slashdot.. ouch..

  2. Die Flash, DIE! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wait, which flash are we talking about here?

  3. dull by Threni · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was expecting something cool, like storing a picture, displaying it, and then constantly XORing each pixel with some random number twice, repeatedly, and watching the image decay over time. Although it would appear that it'd need quite a lot of time.

  4. Re:Interesting! by D+Ninja · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you have any important data on that drive, urine trouble...

  5. I know by billlava · · Score: 5, Funny

    They could add an extra digit to the front of the display showing how many times the other numbers have reached their maximum! Brilliant, 10x the capacity for only one digit more!