-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday, 2013-07-06 at 08:43 -0500, Billie Walsh wrote:
I don't claim to be any kind of expert and had to do some googling to see what this was about. It seems that flash based SSD's have a write limit somewhere in the range of 2,000 to 3,000 before failure. What that equates to in time I have no idea. Dram based SSD's don't have this limit. It also seems that a big bug-a-boo is the onboard controler.
The wikipedia article on flash media talks of up to a million cycles.
I also came up with a lifertime for a mechanical hard drive. It appears that after about six years of use your on borrowed time. They seem to have a lifetimes of somewhere in the range 6 to 9 years. I'm sure that how you use your computer has a lot to do with the life of the hard drive. I'm probably amongst the hardest on them as I hardly ever turn off my computer [ Desktops ].
You have to look at the hours of use, not the years. On a laptop it seems that 4000 to 6000 may be the limit, whereas on a desktop 10000 to 20000 is typical (mine have 12000). - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 12.3 x86_64 "Dartmouth" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlHYX0wACgkQtTMYHG2NR9U7ZQCfa8rXwKu0YybRzxR/sj2KPFNu WDsAnivPM9nNCwWDcIVxspMnLzldFPPH =kdu6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org