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You may find this interesting (or horrifying): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43739028 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43739028 tl;dr: worn flash sh
by userbinator 1y ago
You may find this interesting (or horrifying): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43739028 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43739028
tl;dr: worn flash shows severe degradation, but more worrying is that there are even signs of retention failure with TLC flash that has been programmed only once.
- Dylan16807 1y agoWorrying if you want to leave it unpowered. I made that an explicit part of the tradeoff. I don't value that feature very much, and I don't think many other people value it much either. It's important to make people aware of that problem, but they can solve it in other ways. I'd pay an extra $20 to upgrade a 0.25TB flash drive to SLC and get unlimited retention. For a drive in my computer, I don't need it and it would cost far more. Edit: I could even get an extra hard drive just to act as a backup, and TLC+HDD would still be half the price of SLC.