WTF, This a repost of a 2 year old dead article
An SSD Endurance Experiment: They're All Dead (2015)
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Re: An SSD Endurance Experiment: They're All Dead (2015)
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Would you be willing to pay for a subscription to a quarterly report for that info?
For me? Kind of yes. Only I have subscription overload. Every newspaper and their dog wants to sell me subscriptions but I generally don't read newspapers daily. I'd love to have access to this data through some spotify-for-text service or Blendle or something though. I guess I'm not alone in wanting both to pay researchers, bloggers, journalists etc etc, but based on what I read, not based on a monthly subscribtion…
I keep my recurring subscriptions to a minimum too, so I understand. But, funding the procurement of statistically significant numbers of multiple models of SSD drives, running them through to end-of-life characterization, and keeping that all updated as new models come out is a higher spending profile than your typical blogger. It seems more like a business research report or recurring lab test type of service.
Re: An SSD Endurance Experiment: They're All Dead (2015)
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
The article is wrong on this point, and on Intel's intentions, as far as I can tell. Intel has a "Supernova" feature ( http://itpeernetwork.intel.com/data-integrity-in-solid-state... ) which will cause some drive models to brick themselves if certain conditions are met - errors in the control path, for example, which basically mean you cannot trust the drive at all. The supernova feature is only claimed for enterpris…
> I have a lot of experience with long-running Intel SSDs of various models Hey, could I get your help selecting an Intel SSD model? Overwhelmed by the number of SKUs.
Sure. Can you see the email in my profile?
Re: An SSD Endurance Experiment: They're All Dead (2015)
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
The CI absolutists tend to yell "reproducible builds" at this point and argue that things should be built from scratch every time.
Well, yeah. Reproducible builds are valuable. If you don't think so, then have fun trying to rollback to a commit that can only be built by building a specific set of commits leading up to it in the right order.
Yeah - this stuff is why I advocate so hard for Bazel. It actually gets this shit right, unlike nearly everything else.