ArtikBanana@lemmy.dbzer0.com to datahoarder@lemmy.ml · 5 months agoSSDs with 1000-layer memory chips expected in 2027: ultra-fast 20TB NVMe drives for $250www.tweaktown.comexternal-linkmessage-square39fedilinkarrow-up1106arrow-down13
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minus-squareBlue_Morpho@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·5 months agoBecause drives use ECC and spare sectors to give the illusion of reliability just like QLC. Here is reliability vs drive size.
minus-squaresudo42@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·5 months agoDecades ago, a collegue of mine (who once worked in hard drive design) said, “Oh, hard drives stopped reading 1’s and 0’s years ago. Now they compute the probability that the data just read was a 1 or a 0.”
Because drives use ECC and spare sectors to give the illusion of reliability just like QLC.
Here is reliability vs drive size.
Decades ago, a collegue of mine (who once worked in hard drive design) said, “Oh, hard drives stopped reading 1’s and 0’s years ago. Now they compute the probability that the data just read was a 1 or a 0.”