Michael Hennebry wrote: > > SO the entire drive cold be rewritten 600 times?
Mellvie: > Yes, that 1,200 TBW on 2 TB drive means the drive can be fully rewritten > 600 times in theory. > That's not actually as good as people might think... Put such a drive in a video security system, and the whole drive can be filled in a few days if the resolution is high and compression low. So a drive might only last a couple of years. Again, I consider that a very short lifespan. And what about 600 times to same/similar spots in the drive? There are various applications that do lots of writes. Web browsing, audio editing, logging, compiling... Another thing I see rarely mentioned is what about lots of reads to the same locations? How well do drives stand up to that? And reading is something that will always be to the same location, writing is more open to writing to different spots each time (i.e. never overwrite, but always write anew, and erase the old afterwards, though it is deliberately fragmenting data). -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 (yes, this is the output from uname for this PC when I posted) Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
