IBM tests 4-terabyte solid-state drive tech

Iria

Big Blue announces solid-state drive technology that achieves high speed and power savings, even if only in the labs so far.
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Source: Nanotech

BlueMak

I recently read that there is a limit to how many times a SSD can be written, it doesn't sound too good. Will this limit also exist for the 4 terrabyte ssd? I wonder.

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Judas

There is a limit before things break down...

But the talk about it would be extreme length of time before it would happen.... lengths of time that would exceed most of all current hardrive tech reguardless....

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BlueMak

I Wasn't talking about the life expectancy of the hardware, but the amount of writing on sectors. Of course if the same limit exists, about 100,000 I don't know if this could be reached in a couple of years or far further than that.

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The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm Sic semper tyrannis.

Judas

i was under the impression that within the time that it would take to breakdown would be due to the read/write/rewrites

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