{"id":9008,"date":"2014-06-18T15:40:30","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T19:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=9008"},"modified":"2014-06-20T21:59:54","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T01:59:54","slug":"the-ssd-endurance-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/18\/the-ssd-endurance-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"The SSD Endurance Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2014\/06\/consumer-grade-ssds-actually-last-a-hell-of-a-long-time\/\">Lee Hutchinson<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loopinsight.com\/2014\/06\/17\/consumer-grade-ssds-actually-last-a-hell-of-a-long-time\/\">Shawn King<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2014\/06\/consumer-grade-ssds-actually-last-a-hell-of-a-long-time\/\"><p>The results are impressive: the consumer-grade SSDs tested all made it to at least 700TB of writes before failing. Three of the drives have written 1PB (that&rsquo;s a thousand terabytes, by TechReport&rsquo;s decimal reckoning, not 1024TB). That&rsquo;s a hell of a lot more writes than the manufacturers&rsquo; stated drive lifetimes, and that&rsquo;s good news for SSD-buying consumers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techreport.com\/review\/26523\/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-casualties-on-the-way-to-a-petabyte\">Geoff Gasior<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/techreport.com\/review\/26523\/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-casualties-on-the-way-to-a-petabyte\"><p>If you haven&rsquo;t been following along with our endurance experiment, <a href=\"http:\/\/techreport.com\/review\/24841\/introducing-the-ssd-endurance-experiment\">this introductory article<\/a> is a good starting point. It spends far more time detailing our test methods and system configurations than the brief primer we&rsquo;ll provide here.<\/p>\n<p>The premise is straightforward. Flash memory has limited endurance, so we&rsquo;re writing data to a stack of SSDs to see how much they can take. We&rsquo;re checking health and performance at regular intervals, and we&rsquo;re not going to stop until all the drives are dead.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Hutchinson (via Shawn King): The results are impressive: the consumer-grade SSDs tested all made it to at least 700TB of writes before failing. Three of the drives have written 1PB (that&rsquo;s a thousand terabytes, by TechReport&rsquo;s decimal reckoning, not 1024TB). That&rsquo;s a hell of a lot more writes than the manufacturers&rsquo; stated drive lifetimes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[183,174],"class_list":["post-9008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ssd","tag-storage"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9022,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9008\/revisions\/9022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}