Funnily, I had such an experience: an SSD on the laptop of the brand SanDisk, guaranteed for 80 TB of writes. Well, I had it twice changed under guarantee. Then the shop provided me an OCZ. Maybe that lasts longer... I'm still in guarantee.
paul Le 23 août 2011 à 17:11, Toke Eskildsen a écrit : > On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 16:10 +0200, Federico Fissore wrote: > > [Toke: Re-writes is not a problem now] >> Maybe this still is a point, thinking at how easy is today to fill your >> local storage: for example, a "common" user will store video files. > > It is only a problem if the SSD is stored to the brim (and don't have > hidden cells to counter the problem). If you store to the brim, you will > have problems working actively with the device - temporary files, > logging and whatnot tends to require that a non-trivial amount of > storage is free. If you are not working actively with the device, the > wear on the cells is not a problem. This brings us back to my initial > point: Yes, you can construct cases where there will be problems. But > they tend to be artificial: > > Let's say you have a drive with just 5GB left. Let's say that the cells > can handle 10,000 writes. Doing constant rewrites of the 5GB gives you > 10,000 * 5GB = 50TB before the drive gives up. I asked my drive about my > daily write average some time ago. It was 13GB/day. With that scenario, > the drive would live 10+ years. > > Admittedly this is just back-of-the-envelope and it ignores a lot of > factors, but it does provides an idea of the amount of punishment they > can take. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
