-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday, 2013-07-06 at 20:46 +0200, Daniel Bauer wrote:
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).
Wait. My first paragraph above refers to flash media; the articles mentions 10000 cyles for some media, 10⁵ for better media, and 10⁶ for even better media. And my second paragraph refers to standard magnetic media.
Maybe nowadays SSD are much better, don't know. It's not a time where things generally get better :-)
I guess they improve. Just read another paragraph in the wikipedia where they say that Macronix is working on a device that self heals itself with "heaters" inside the chip, improving cycle expectations to 100·10⁶. There are no comercial chips of that class yet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory#Memory_wear - search fo Macronix - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 12.3 x86_64 "Dartmouth" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlHYajMACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VY8ACbBHRiJXaozVzyDGojR57a8R9D hV8AnjgPP0i0nv3sEcONQCIYnP2jEG/5 =fCGV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----