On 13.1.2011, at 19.37, Robert Brockway wrote: > Hi Timo. Wear levelling often isn't as good as is claimed on the box. Often > wear levelling is only across subsets of the SSD not across the entire device. > > I've seen several SSD drives fail in production after about 12 months of use, > and this in low-write environments (eg, I log syslog to a remote syslog > server). I'm refraining from deploying SSD for mail servers for now, much > as I would love to.
How do they fail? Supposedly once a cell has reached its erase-limit it should become read-only. Maybe the failures had nothing to do with wearing?
