On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Scott Carey wrote:
> For anyone worried about the X 25–M’s ability to withstand lots of write
> cycles ... Calculate how long it would take you to write 800TB to the
> drive at a typical rate. For most use cases that’s going to be > 5
> years. For the 160GB version, it will take 2x as much data and time to
> wear it down.
This article just came out:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/20/intel_x25emmental/
and
http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=669
It seems that the performance of the X25-M degrades over time, as the
write levelling algorithm fragments the device into little bits.
Especially under database-like access patterns.
Matthew
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