[lug] FYI systems w/ more than 128GB

[mad.scientist.at.large at tutanota.com]

It's likely that the technology has been constantly improving and larger drives are likely to be more recently designed/fabricated than smaller drives and hence larger implies newer which implies better.  Even within the same model number there are likely improvements in units manufactured later, especially with semiconductors.  

Nearly all technologies get better with time, even vacuum tubes are better now than they were (there are still some applications, mostly very high power/microwave, where tubes are still the preferred choice over semiconductors).

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11. Feb 2018 14:13 by bcarr at purgatoire.org:


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>>> Curiously, the larger the SSD the longer          lived it is likely to be.          
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>>         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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