I found this article enlightening: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/How_to_Damage_a_FLASH_Storage_Device
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Chuck Anderson <cra@wpi.edu> wrote:
I found this article enlightening:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/How_to_Damage_a_FLASH_Storage_Device
The article is incomplete. I didn't see any mention of leaving your flash device in the passenger footwell of a car with a leaking sunroof for a few days. -- Rich
"Chuck" == Chuck Anderson <cra@WPI.EDU> writes:
Chuck> I found this article enlightening: Chuck> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/How_to_Damage_a_FLASH_Storage_Device Interesting. Doesn't talk about environmental effects all, so I'd probably re-title it to say "Poor disk layout format can kill your SSD". Or something like that. I'm curious how well ext2/3/4 and btrfs would work on an SSD formated properly? Also, don't alot of SSDs actually do wear levelling at their firmware level, to get around alot of these issues? Seeing some test results of identical SSDs being formatted in good and bad ways and then written to until dead would be interesting. John
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, John Stoffel wrote:
I'm curious how well ext2/3/4 and btrfs would work on an SSD formated properly? Also, don't alot of SSDs actually do wear levelling at their firmware level, to get around alot of these issues?
Yes, but it looks like there are also nice performance gains to be had when aligning partitions. A very throrough discussion can be found here: http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=48309 Brian
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