16-year-old SATA II SSD survives 1 petabyte of writes
www.tomshardware.com
As part of an experiment, an enthusiast has written one petabyte of data on a legacy Sandisk P4 SATA II SSD that was released 16 years ago.
  • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    meanwhile, i’ve seen several nvme oem parts (both qlc and tlc types) in dell and hp systems fail at less than 10 terabytes written.

    • QuadratureSurfer@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      I definitely want to know more about this. Was this in an actual test environment, or could it be caused by a lot more reads/writes than expected due to something like using nvme’s as RAM through page files/swapfile?

  • darthsundhaft@piefed.socialEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    Not all nand flash are the same. Those drives (without reading the article) were probably MLC. Modern nand storage use TLC b/c they’re cheaper to produce allegedly. The gold tier of nand flash from what I recall would be SLC which I don’t think they even make or sell anymore for regular SATA or NVMe storage.