On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 04:34:00 +1000 Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au> wrote:
> I believe that would be true of quite /old/ SSD drives, but
> definitely not for newer ones.
I wouldn't be so positive… until a real independent lab,
conducting real tests (especially with a high number of
small files, test curiously (much too) often absent from
"testers" sites).
> The new drives are subject to write issues,
Yeah, like older ones.
> but to hit that problem will take just as long as a
> traditional spinning drive -- they too have limits, spinning
> drives are mechanical.
May be, but most of my disks have a ≥ 10 years life (24/7) with
a very few errors (only 2 of 45 have 1 & 3 unrecoverable sectors),
so, if you can prove me SSD is as good as these, why not…
> There have been very heavy torture tests on thew newer range of
> SSDs and they are performing exceptionally well with mega data
> being written [1], up to fairly heavy data usage levels.
All are biased ("strangely", to lower the write errors due to
multiple write repetitions on the same sectors); this is why
until a _real_ lab, with plausible tests protocols and
methodology doesn't make a test, I won't trust it more than
my first underwear :)
> There is apparently a way to restore SSD drives to original
> condition by super heating the layer that breaks down (due to
> writes), targeting the exact spot with the right temperature
> returns the SSD drive to brand new state. Not sure when this
> newest generation will hit the market though. [2]
Yeah, go figure heating _some_ cells among all in a today's
chip density; not to mention that I don't see other
sites/labs/researchers saying the same thing.
On this ground too, us firms can't be trusted as they hire
and pay indelicate specialists to _get_ the result they
_want_; just as monsanto or the govts does.
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