[lug] FYI systems w/ more than 128GB

Zan Lynx zlynx at acm.org
Sun Feb 11 14:08:38 MST 2018


On 2/11/2018 11:22 AM, BC wrote:
> Curiously, the larger the SSD the longer lived it is likely to be.

I believe that this is because the larger drives have a proportionately 
larger pool of spare blocks. And of course because you can write a 
complete terabyte to a 1 TB drive with only 1 flash erase cycle. Writing 
1 TB to a 256 MB drive is 4 erase cycles.


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