There are some shady rumors going around that SSD memory might be sketchy. The rumors say that after 100,000 writes, the RAM starts to fail. Not so, says Samsung’s Michael Yang. He wants you to know that it might start to fail after 100,000 writes to every single cell in the chip, something that would be virtually impossible.
Truly, SSD is the memory format of the future. Less power hungry, lighter, and with no moving parts to break, it will be the hard drive for laptops of the future, with some, like a variant of the MacBook Air, already featuring the technology.
Samsung defends flash reliability in solid-state drives [C-Net Blogs]
The whole argument comes down to $/bit. You can get a whole lot more space on a hard disk drive for a whole lot less money. People have been touting SSD for years, but it hasn’t even come close to the $/bit of hard disk drives.
Don’t believe me? Ask your mom.
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Mr. Yang,
You say “virtually impossible”… what data do you have to support your claim? The reality is you are trying to make us believe that the NAND (not RAM) you use to build these SSD’s is “good enough” when your measurement of goodness is cheap USB and memory cards that make up 80% of the $12B segment of the memory business. Yes you can enhance the reliability with good management but that all comes down to your assumptions of how I will use my drive, which of course you really don’t know now do you.
When you compare SSD’s with HDD’s you must clarify that while the instantaneous failure rate might be lower then an HDD because of the SSD’s immunity to shock and vibration, the fact is with SSD’s it’s a matter of time before all of them fail vs. the probability of an HDD failing. I for one want to make sure my data is safe.
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