Quote Originally Posted by m^2 View Post
1. Home users don't write 100 or even 20 GB every day. I doubt that more than 0.01% write more than 1 GB on average.
2. 10K writes per cell means that 98% cells with last at least that long. Some longer, even much longer. In case of Texas Memory Systems SLC up to 5 times declared life and overall more than what's stated.
3. this and this.
4. I wouldn't trust Intel marketing claims referring to competing products.
1. An untweaked OS itself if left idling will write a few GB a day. Somebody somewhere did some calcs and it was like 4GB/day with very light firefox use. I wish I remembered where I saw that. This may be FUD, my memory is fuzzy.
2. This is actually questionable... There are some forensics experts that say that those cells don't last anywhere near their rated 10k/100k values, but actually much less. It makes sense that manufacturers would lie about this, and the forensics guys have no reasons to lie, so I am keeping my doubts on those numbers for the time being. I will post a link of one expert mentioning this in a presentation this evening.
3. I've received some more dead sammys since I made those posts. All had burnt out controllers and the NAND chips were actually just fine and perfectly readable with specialized and very expensive NAND chip reader hardware.
4. Yep. Probably over exaggerated.