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2010. I've been following the industry since I left, and I promise you neither the physics of FN flash nor the manufacturing process has fundamentally changed
by sevensor 9y ago
2010. I've been following the industry since I left, and I promise you neither the physics of FN flash nor the manufacturing process has fundamentally changed since then. Nor have the true endurance numbers substantially improved. If anything the situation is worse now with smaller device dimensions. The only thing standing between your collection of cat gifs and oblivion is the flash controller making intelligent guesses about what it just read.
- warrenm 9y agoSorry, but you must not be "following the industry" very well. SSDs have lifespans measured in years of constant use. If you think it isn't the case, you need to go back and learn more about those devices you claim to know so much about.
- sevensor 9y agoI'm afraid we're misunderstanding each other here. You're talking about the fully-integrated SSD. Not my area of expertise. I'm talking about the endurance of the flash cell transistors. Nobody's claiming significantly higher endurance for the transistors themselves -- what's improved is the stuff on top of them. SSD controllers have gotten better at not trashing any given cell with repeated program / erase cycles. If you measure endurance of modern SSDs versus seven years ago, sure, you'll see better endurance, but that's becasue there's better logic on top, not because the cell transistors are any better than they were.
- detaro 9y agoBut as a user putting the SSD into my machine I don't care about the low-level cells, I care about what's in the datasheet of the device I bought?