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Re:Threadripper 3990X: The Quest To Compile 1B Lines Of C++ ... by tomc1985 on Thursday February 04, 2021 @02:46AM (#26023482)
As a counterpoint, I burn-tested several random M.2 NVME drives over a period of a month of 24/7 writes and reads and all but one model failed before the month was up
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Re:Threadripper 3990X: The Quest To Compile 1B Lines Of C++ ... by rbanffy on Thursday February 04, 2021 @04:52AM (#26024111)
Heat dissipation can be an issue. Writing continuously generates a lot of heat.
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Re:Threadripper 3990X: The Quest To Compile 1B Lines Of C++ ... by tomc1985 on Thursday February 04, 2021 @12:52PM (#26027867)
Part of the purpose of a burn test is to see how it handles temperature under load. We didn't have the option of adding cooling, many of the product installations took place in a hot climate, and nobody wanted to pay for a hardened part...

Anyway, my point is that SSD drive reliability varies wildly

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Re:Threadripper 3990X: The Quest To Compile 1B Lines Of C++ ... by nwmcsween on Friday February 05, 2021 @01:46AM (#26033778)
Nvme does, SSDs as in sata doing this burn test will probably work fine
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