Endurance experiment kills six consumer SSDs over 18 months

Re:Endurance experiment kills six consumer SSDs over 18 months by chisleu on Thursday March 12, 2015 @04:32PM (#9193679)

I would love to see how this stacks up to enterprise SSDs. It is my understanding that they will last years under constant full-bus-speed rewriting.

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Re:Endurance experiment kills six consumer SSDs over 18 months by trhway on Thursday March 12, 2015 @09:02PM (#9195100)

>I would love to see how this stacks up to enterprise SSDs.

the difference is number of writes an individual flash cell can take. Consumer - multi-level cell (MLC) - 1000-3000 writes (thus 240GB disks start to fail around 600-700TB written) where is enterprise SSD flash - single-level cell (SLC) - up to 100000 writes.

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Re:Endurance experiment kills six consumer SSDs over 18 months by chisleu on Friday March 13, 2015 @02:14PM (#9198794)

I'm talking eMLC. I don't see many SLCs on the market anymore.

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Re:Endurance experiment kills six consumer SSDs over 18 months by mrmondo on Thursday March 12, 2015 @04:53PM (#9193826)

Check out the Intel DC p3600 / p3700 - very nice NVMe SSDs

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Re:Endurance experiment kills six consumer SSDs over 18 months by chisleu on Friday March 13, 2015 @02:20PM (#9198853)

Absolutely correct. Those are some fantastic units. However I'm generally limited to 2.5" SAS/SATA interfaces.

I hope to find some benchmarks like this on enterprise level stuff to fight the bullshit around SSDs not being capable of write intensive operations.

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Re:Endurance experiment kills six consumer SSDs over 18 months by mrmondo on Sunday March 15, 2015 @01:58AM (#9205535)

I'll have you some benchmarks next week / the week after or so. I'm building custom storage servers and will be writing it up as I go: http://smcleod.net/building-a-high-performance-ssd-san/

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