How long does a flash drive last?

meelashmeelash
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
http://www.bress.net/blog/archives/1...rive-Last.html



I remember this used to be a topic of discussion here a few years ago when SSD harddrives first started appearing.

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    MarvinMarvin Posts: 15,324moderator
    The 3rd gen x25M is reported to be able to write 30TB-60TB of 4k random writes before dying:



    http://www.techspot.com/news/40544-l...ssd-specs.html



    That doesn't sound like much but it'll likely translate into a few years of use. The x25e gets 1-2PB by comparison.



    I wonder if the x25m range might have been a typo and it should be 300TB. It seems significantly lower than the x25e.



    The USB drive test wrote over 1KB of data 90m times before dying so 90GB for a USB Flash drive.
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