2010/4/19 Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilm...@ilmari.org>: > Joel Bernstein <j...@fysh.org> writes: > >> On 19 April 2010 16:00, Chris Jack <chris_j...@msn.com> wrote: >>> aka it's rated for 20Gb of writes for a minimum of 5 years >> >> You may have a transcription error in units there. Did you mean >> 20Gb/<duration>? If so, how long? > > Quoting from the data sheet[1]: > > | 3.5.4 Minimum Useful Life > | The drive will have a minimum of 5 years of useful life under > | typical client workloads with up to 20 GB of host writes per day. > > [1]: http://download.intel.com/design/flash/nand/mainstream/322296.pdf
Sorry, I do realise I could've searched the data sheet for the info, but I did a "TL;DR" at it and fired off an email rather than helping myself to the info. Thanks. /joel