Solid state drives

[Joel Bernstein]

2010/4/19 Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari at ilmari.org>:
> Joel Bernstein <joel at fysh.org> writes:
>
>> On 19 April 2010 16:00, Chris Jack <chris_jack at msn.com> wrote:
>>> aka it's rated for 20Gb of writes for a minimum of 5 years
>>
>> You may have a transcription error in units there. Did you mean
>> 20Gb/<duration>? If so, how long?
>
> Quoting from the data sheet[1]:
>
> | 3.5.4 Minimum Useful Life
> |      The drive will have a minimum of 5 years of useful life under
> |      typical client workloads with up to 20 GB of host writes per day.
>
> [1]: http://download.intel.com/design/flash/nand/mainstream/322296.pdf

Sorry, I do realise I could've searched the data sheet for the info,
but I did a "TL;DR" at it and fired off an email rather than helping
myself to the info. Thanks.

/joel