[lug] FYI systems w/ more than 128GB

BC bcarr at purgatoire.org
Sun Feb 11 14:13:28 MST 2018



Yes, that is what the gurus I was reading yesterday said as well.


On 2/11/2018 2:08 PM, Zan Lynx wrote:
> 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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