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1ooo to 3000 P/E cycles per bit cell for consumer grade chips 10,000 enterprise grade chips
that's a pretty damn short life compared to magnetic storage and the greater the chip density the fewer the P/E cycles for all chips the more of the drive's capacity you use the shorter the life of the drive I would only use an SSDs for the O/S and put log files , swap space and user data on a magnetic drive OK I was way off on the drive life I was right on the bit cell life in spite of that my point is SSDs will not make magnetic drives a thing of the past any time soon maybe never |
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Nope, only the SSDs will have any problems. |
1ooo to 3000 P/E cycles per bit cell for consumer grade chips 10,000 enterprise grade chips
that's a pretty damn short life compared to magnetic storage and the greater the chip density the fewer the P/E cycles for all chips the more of the drive's capacity you use the shorter the life of the drive I would only use an SSDs for the O/S and put log files , swap space and user data on a magnetic drive OK I was way off on the drive life I was right on the bit cell life in spite of that my point is SSDs will not make magnetic drives a thing of the past any time soon maybe never my bet of the cause of the death of magnetic HDDs will be this http://www.laserfocusworld.com/artic...tal-media.html |
8 billion cells for an 8GB drive, times 3000 cycles, that takes a long time.
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Don't the Xbox One and the Playstation 4 both have rotary hard drives?
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multimedia work maybe 1 month for data base or spread sheet work maybe 6 months computer programming work maybe 1 year swap space could kill it in a week it's what the applications are doing that accounts for 95% of the read write cycles less than 5% are the user saving to long term storage |
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You cannot write to every cell on a drive even 1000 times in a month. Cannot be done, not enough time, even if you run something that writes at maximum speed 24/7.
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I admit I'm still a little sceptical of SSDs despite having used them in this EEE for years but, as I see it, spinny drives have their own problems with things like overheating, bad sectors, bad bearings and the like that mean in use they're no more stable. |
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As for the enough storage capacity. There was a time that 20MB was more than enough, then 200MB was a lot, now someone mention that 250GB is enough. In a few years people probably will pity you if you tell them you have less than 2TB in your system. :) Besides the real use for HDD is not the home user but the big data centers. And I dont think Google or facebook are going to replace all their harddisks for solid state, unless there is a very compelling economical reason. When will we reach that point, I dont know. I remember that when floating point processors were still an optional item, someone calculated that the price of the copro had to be less than 1/3th of the main processor before people added them to their systems. There is probably a compareable price point where people decide they going to replace their HDDs with SSDs. Mind you, I'm talking about replacing not adding to. Most people that replace their system disk still keep 1 or more terabyte harddisks around for storage of their data. And to quote the great writer Samuel Clemens - 'The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.' Cheers |
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