Am 06.07.2013 20:17, schrieb Carlos E. R.: ...
The wikipedia article on flash media talks of up to a million cycles.
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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).
lucky you! My Corsair 60GB SSD from 2008/9 (?) gave up irrecoverably with approx. 4000 hours during only 3 periods of 6 month over 3 years (with pauses of 6 month unused). I used it for / incl. /swap and /boot, without /srv and /home, where all my data is. As I have 16GB Ram I guess swap was not used very often. I went back to a "normal" hd. Yes, booting was a pleasure with SSD, so incredibly fast, and large programs opened in a instant, but well... Maybe nowadays SSD are much better, don't know. It's not a time where things generally get better :-) Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Barcelona professional photography: http://www.daniel-bauer.com google+: https://plus.google.com/109534388657020287386 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org