Samsung Is Promising 'Never-Die' SSDs

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Samsung Is Promising 'Never-Die' SSDs

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Re: Samsung Is Promising 'Never-Die' SSDs

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Pretty cool. However all that really means is if one cell dies move it to another which now gets writes then that fails and then writes again. I can see a situation where the reason the cells failed in the first place has to do with the writes of that cell being used up and now it moves that data to the other cells and will create a snowball effect and more and more and more cells will die faster as it no longer has as many cells to distribute all the writes to and then then entire drive fails.

So I think it is better then nothing at all but the whole "Never-Die" term is so not true ;-)

Many drives already come with load balancing of the cells to write evenly already. But again that will just mean the entire drive will die at the same time and moving almost dead data to another cell will not help.
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