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Old 10-08-2008, 01:06 PM  
rowan
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Originally Posted by GigoloShawn View Post
The thing I don't like about SSD is the finite write cycles. Do you have any idea how many programs make a million swap files? They're up from the 10,000 days, but a good few month's worth of browsing could easily kill it if you don't use a RAMDisk along with your, uh, RAM Disk.
Most flash these days uses a controller chip which implements wear levelling, so two writes to the same LBA/sector may actually be stored at different locations in the flash. It would take over a year of constant writing to the drive - every sector - at 100MB/sec to break the 100,000 individual sector count. Unless you're using trying capture 10 security cameras at 30fps 24/7 you'll probably never even get anywhere near the limit...
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