<div dir="ltr">On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 9:14 AM, Khalid Baheyeldin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com" target="_blank">kb@2bits.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span class="">On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 11:45 PM, B.S. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bs27975@yahoo.ca" target="_blank">bs27975@yahoo.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br></span><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span>> On the box it says MLC and "20GB/day endurance rating".<br>
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</span>Interesting. Haven't come across such nomenclature before as "/day endurance rating". If SSDs are expected to ultimately die, hopefully many years from now, is there any sense as to how many days "/day endurance rating" means? (When we look at making such purchases ourselves.) Presumably it does not mean 'forever'.<br></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>I was wondering too: 20GB/day FOR HOW LONG? For a year? Three? Five? Ten? They don't say. <br><br></div><div>What they say is that it has a 3 year warranty. So I guess 365*3*20GB is what they rate it for. <br><br>Or maybe this is an emerging industry convention of sort and this is the first we (I) hear of it.<br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br clear="all">One their web site, they spell it out:<br><br><a href="http://ocz.com/consumer/vertex-460a-ssd/specifications">http://ocz.com/consumer/vertex-460a-ssd/specifications</a><br><br>"Rated for 20GB/day of host writes for 3 years under typical client workloads"<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">So, it is indeed the warranty duration and a maximum limit.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Looking at their lineup, they do have ones that are rated for more GB/day for more years.<br><br><a href="http://ocz.com/consumer/sata-3-ssd">http://ocz.com/consumer/sata-3-ssd</a><br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Khalid M. Baheyeldin<br><a href="http://2bits.com" target="_blank">2bits.com</a>, Inc.<br>Fast Reliable Drupal<br>Drupal optimization, development, customization and consulting.<br>Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. -- Edsger W.Dijkstra<br>Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. -- Leonardo da Vinci<br>For every complex problem, there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." -- H.L. Mencken<br></div>
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