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Article: Accurately judging endurance for solid-state storage: determining the appropriate solid-state-storage approach for OEM applications can be difficult, especially when suppliers often rely on varying methods to measure the performance of their products. It is no wonder the selection process is daunting.
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- January 19, 2006
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Designers require a common measure for accurately evaluating storage options and their reliability. Endurance can provide such a measure, and understanding how to evaluate it correctly can help designers effectively select the right approach. "Endurance" refers to the number of write/erase cycles that a product can perform before it wears out. However, endurance is more than just a function of the storage media you are evaluating. The media and the associated controller technology combine to define a product's endurance. For example, magnetic media is an order of magnitude less reliable than NAND flash, yet the controller technology that rotating hard drives employ can ...
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