The new "consumer" SSDs from Samsung carry a 1200 TBW/8 year warranty on a 4 TB 
device.  That is a lot of writing for a "consumer desktop" computer ... that is 
about 400 GB written per DAY every day for 8 years!

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The fact that there's a Highway to Hell but only a Stairway to Heaven says a 
lot about anticipated traffic volume.


>-----Original Message-----
>From: sqlite-users [mailto:sqlite-users-
>boun...@mailinglists.sqlite.org] On Behalf Of Scott Doctor
>Sent: Monday, 18 June, 2018 22:27
>To: sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org
>Subject: Re: [sqlite] Strange Corruption Issue
>
>SSD's have a limited number of write cycles. You may have a
>failing SSD. Those are still, IMO, another 5-10 years before
>they solve the write lifetime reliabilty issue.
>
>-------------------------
>Scott Doctor
>sc...@scottdoctor.com
>-------------------------
>
>On 6/18/2018 20:15, Patrick Herbst wrote:
>> I'm using sqlite in an embedded application, running on SSD.
>>
>> journal_mode=persist
>> so that it is more resilient to loss of power.
>>
>> I'm seeing corruption.  I'm using sqlite to log events on the
>system,
>> and the corruption is well in the middle of a power session; not at
>> the tail end of log when a power loss might occur.
>>
>> What i'm seeing is just a few pages corrupted with random bits
>being
>> flipped.  looking in a hex editor I can see the corrupted data, and
>> where I can tell what values it SHOULD be, I see that they're
>wrong,
>> but only by a single bit flip.... in random bytes here and there.
>for
>> example a "A" is "a", or a "E" is "A".  These are all changes of a
>> single bit.  there are far more examples... but in pretty much
>every
>> case (even when RowID's are wrong) its just off by a bit.
>>
>> I'm using sqlite 3.7 (i know, old, but this this system is old).
>Has
>> anyone else seen random bit flips?  Any idea what could be causing
>it?
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