Are there tools to probe flash controllers for usage history?
Jon Pruente
jdpruente at gmail.com
Tue Jan 15 09:38:05 CST 2008
On Jan 14, 2008 9:16 PM, Oren Beck <orenbeck at gmail.com> wrote:
> 1. IS a device with 80% of it's estimated "life" used still "Stable" for
> archive use? Defined as whatever data is the "Last Writes" remaining stable
> for the same # of years as a written to "less" device or not. With
> qualifiers on confidence levels and non-obvious issues.
>
> 2. Agreement on flag or bit to declare a flash device "Archive" .
AFAIK the device can be read as often as desired with no degradation.
Thus, anything less than 99.999% life used up should be fine. Of
course the lifetimes are estimates of averages anyway...
Jon.
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