Originally Posted by
johnw
I'd say that is a low-end estimate. The Intel SSD probably has 40GiB of flash on-board (not counting parity flash on the 320), and Intel has made some comments leading me to believe that they think their 25nm flash is specified at 5000 erase cycles, so we could estimate the specified writes at:
40*(1024)^3*5000 / 10^12 = 214 TB
With 1.1 WA, that comes to 195TB.
Interestingly, One Hertz just reported 107TB and 45% wear indicator. That comes to:
107 / (100% - 45%) = 194.55 TB