Flash Destroyer Tests Limit of Solid State Storage

Posted by timothy on Thursday May 27, 2010 @08:02AM 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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I told you so. by Jane+Q.+Public · 2010-05-27 10:00 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I am really not big on the "I told you so" thing, but in other stories about SSDs I mentioned that I could easily write a program like this, and some people called me an idiot and said I was full of BS. Well, to those specific people: See? Just maybe I knew what I was talking about after all.

Gloat gloat.

And now back to our regularly scheduled program.