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I blame tech journalism like the verge for this failure. SSD manufacturers are well aware of what their drives should do. But they are also aware that to get
by londons_explore 3y ago
I blame tech journalism like the verge for this failure.
SSD manufacturers are well aware of what their drives should do. But they are also aware that to get sales they need to win benchmarks, and that to do that they cut corners with data integrity.
A benchmark of a drive should involve a heavy workload with a random drive hard and unplanned poweroff every 30 seconds. The drive should never lose a single fsync'ed byte.
The drive should also be put in hot/cold cycling chambers. And in radiation chambers. And journalists should publish which drives meet their obligations despite all the adverse (yet still in spec) conditions they're put through.
I bet no ssd for sale today could survive all 3 tests above for a month and still get okayish performance without data loss.
- londons_explore 3y agoJournalists could go even further. Have robustness tests where they drop the drive in salt water, shoot it with a gun, chuck it in a fire etc., And then see how much data can be recovered with data recovery tools.
- SemioticStandrd 3y ago…right. Don’t blame the manufacturer for making shitty drives, blame tech review sites for testing those drives with the tools available and reporting the results of those tests. This is some 4D level victim blaming shit. I’m almost impressed at the absurdity of this argument.
- londons_explore 3y agoTech review sites put extreme pressure on manufacturers. When the review sites only review one thing, corners get cut to make that one thing look good. Any honest manufacturer who did what they thought was best for the customer, not what got them the best reviews, went bankrupt long ago.