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Re:Endurance experiment kills six consumer SSDs over 18 months by ars on Thursday March 12, 2015 @09:57PM (#9195290)
I would put the entire redirection table on ram, and only write it to disk (to a dedicated area) when turning off the power.

By doing that, that area will easily outlast the regular flash.

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Re:Endurance experiment kills six consumer SSDs over 18 months by schwap on Thursday March 12, 2015 @11:02PM (#9195481)
Hope you have ECC RAM :)

Also hope you never have a power outage or hard reset of any kind.

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Re:Endurance experiment kills six consumer SSDs over 18 months by TheLoneWolfling on Friday March 13, 2015 @12:21AM (#9195655)
ECC RAM? Easy.

And as for power outages and hard resets, there's these nifty things known as capacitors. It only needs to last as long as is necessary to write the data to flash.

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