Taking a Hard Look At SSD Write Endurance

Posted by timothy on Tuesday February 19, 2013 @01:43AM from the now-it's-just-a-budget-question dept.

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."

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Re:Holy idiocy batman by h4rr4r · 2013-02-19 01:53 · Score: 1, Flamebait

That is not a citation. That is you again making some claims. Please do provide a link to a source for this.
I am not disputing the accuracy, just that it coming from an AC does not inspire confidence.