That was exactly the intention. And I've written down that idea for a more focused article on desktop/workstation usage with consumer grade SSDs, just in case nobody else will beat me to it;).
I specifically had SLCs in mind when I ran the numbers. As for the 100k writes I used my original calculations, I took those from this PDF here: http://www.datasheetcatalog.org/datasheets2/16/1697648_1.pdf - see section 1.5, it lists "Endurance : 100K Program/Erase Cycles"
As for the 1M write cycles: http://investors.micron.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=440650 - that one came out in 2008, so using it as a baseline for "newer" SLCs didn't seem that far off. I'll have to revise the article to include those links methinks...
I'm still stumped at how people manage to actually receive anything sent to their homes to boot. Maybe it's just me, but at my place nobody's at home in that rather... flexible... time span that delivery companies might decide to drop by...... but then again I find it easier to just have the things I want delivered to either the company where I work rather than to some PO Box workalike where I actually drive by and pick it up.
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That was exactly the intention. And I've written down that idea for a more focused article on desktop/workstation usage with consumer grade SSDs, just in case nobody else will beat me to it ;).
I specifically had SLCs in mind when I ran the numbers. As for the 100k writes I used my original calculations, I took those from this PDF here: http://www.datasheetcatalog.org/datasheets2/16/1697648_1.pdf - see section 1.5, it lists "Endurance : 100K Program/Erase Cycles" As for the 1M write cycles: http://investors.micron.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=440650 - that one came out in 2008, so using it as a baseline for "newer" SLCs didn't seem that far off. I'll have to revise the article to include those links methinks...
I'm still stumped at how people manage to actually receive anything sent to their homes to boot. Maybe it's just me, but at my place nobody's at home in that rather... flexible... time span that delivery companies might decide to drop by... ... but then again I find it easier to just have the things I want delivered to either the company where I work rather than to some PO Box workalike where I actually drive by and pick it up.
Indeed, wouldn't expect an AAA to let down their corporate property, errrr citizens, errrr wait that hasn't happened yet.
Not exactly a surprise, but I'd sure like to get my hands at the statistics afterwards...