SSD Write Endurance 25nm Vs 34nm

[canthearu]

Hell, the real endurance test doesn't even start to 1PiB it seems. The first 1023TiB are just drive prep.

Thats the spirit!

Hopefully the Sandisk extreme will do > 1PiB as well, otherwise it will look kind of silly next the Intel 520 and Crucial m4!

[Christopher]

Thats the spirit!

Hopefully the Sandisk extreme will do > 1PiB as well, otherwise it will look kind of silly next the Intel 520 and Crucial m4!

One of the most salient nuggets of knowledge from this endeavor can be discerned simply by looking at the charts. I hope the Plextor becomes the exception to the rule... I sometimes forget about the Plextor, like it's an afterthought. I'll start thinking about it some more as it gets closer to 1PiB.

[canthearu]

I don't really believe that slower drives = more endurance.

It all depends on:

a) NAND quality and drive size.
b) How gently the controller programs and erases the NAND, to improve NAND life.
c) How the controller detects and handles blocks that wear more then others, while not going crazy due to the average wear increasing.

There have been slow drives that die early .... like the Patriot Torqx 2.
There have been fast drives that last a long time .... like the Samsung 830 is proving to.