In case people haven't seen this: http://techreport.com/review/25320/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-22tb-update
They've taken several ~250GB SSDs and have written 22TBs of data to them so far. They plan on doing another update when they hit 100TB of writes. So far, so good... --Matt Ross Ephrata School District ----- Original Message ----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 08:30:24 -0800 Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Hard drive failure rate > On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Daniel Chenault <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Interesting read and on-topic for pretty much all of us. > > > http://www.extremetech.com/computing/170748-how-long-do-hard-drives-actually-live-for > > TL;DR version: Bathtub curve, as expected. :-) > > And here I call witness to The Third Universal Truth of Information > Technology, which so wisely tells us: "Storage fails." > > (http://www.trioptimum.com/truth/) > > -- Ben > > >
