Re:Flash Drives Replace Disks at Amazon, Facebook, Dropbox
by InclinedPlane on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @03:46PM
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The x-25m uses MLC flash cells. All other things being equal you'd expect an SLC based SSD to have a 10x longer lifetime. Also, can you confirm that your device failed due to write cycle exhaustion or could it have been due to a firmware bug instead?
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Re:Flash Drives Replace Disks at Amazon, Facebook, Dropbox
by StavrosK on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @03:48PM
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Oh, sorry, I didn't realize you were talking about SLC. Yes, that's true. It was cycle exhaustion, as bad sectors started appearing and SMART reported a high end-to-end error count. I had the latest firmware, nothing helped.