No, you have explained why a straight up "write only and do nothing else" test you yourself devised is remotely feasible.

What you have not even touched upon was the actual subject - why the test that techreport has been performing is not feasible to perform on HDDs. This in spite of linking to the actual testing methodology a few posts before this one.

Ditto. Now read the article and consider doing just that. I've been following the test for the year it's been running, and it's very obvious to anyone tech minded why this test is unfeasible on HDDs.

No the reason for the slowness is that they actually, shockingly, TEST the drive.

Not just write on it.

It's pretty sad that you actually went to the length of posting a link to the article that straight up debunks your claims.

It's called "race to the bottom". If the rules were legislated, everyone would have to stick to it.

As noted, many things since golden age of 70s have been systematically eroded to their current level.

It's actually the exact opposite. If electric cars become a reality, they will need to produce and distribute a lot more electricity to generate the energy currently generated by ICEs in the cars.

If anything, they are very much grateful. Same applies to utilities, who would be able to drop the need to fool-proof their electric grids on residential side from net metering folks who cause severe imbalance in the grid by dumping extra power every time sun is up high enough and not behind clouds. Battery storage on site would allow such people to store energy for their own use instead of dumping it in the residential grid.

Overall, the entire story is utterly stupid and requires massive levels of green fanaticism which interprets current power generation as "pure evil".

Seriously, you're a third person on slashdot who hasn't even read the OP.

The SSD test has been going on for over a year now. Consider the fact that best case scenario for HDD means it's several times slower as well as several times larger. Understand that you're looking at many years, possibly over a decade of test time.

Now compare the relative size of similar HDD. Now comprehend that this test has been running over a year now. Do the math on how many years it would take for similar test to be done on HDDs.

Then understand the original statement.

Now remind yourself of comparable hard drive size, comprehend that you're looking at something that is several times slower AND several times larger.

Now consider that this test for SSDs has been running for well over a year now. How many years, or even decades would you need to get the same test of HDDs?

Impossible to test in the same way due to time constraints. Filling the entire hard drive takes a very long time, unlike a much smaller and much faster SSD.

Every village needs its idiot I guess.

Those who don't know yet, angelosphere is the local wind power shill. Last time I interacted with him he came down swinging telling me that most if not all modern wind plants do not have a gearbox, and that generators of gearboxless plants don't use neodymium. When asked for which company he was talking about, he quoted GE and Siemens.

When I pointed him towards GE's current sales brochure that is almost fully plants with gear boxes, and the GE studies that showed that they couldn't make large amounts of gearboxless plants because they're both inefficient and require extreme amounts of neodymium, he suggested that GE was in fact wrong.

He had similar bouts of insanity when forced to face reality with other users as well. I prefer to simply post this boilerplate disclamer nowadays instead of trying to engage in another attempt to hammer reality in, only to have another bout of his utter insanity thrown in my face.

The nasty stuff that killed people early on is I-131. That has half life of eight days.

The stuff that is currently causing most of radiation is Sr-90 and Cs-137. Those are long term irradiators with half lives of around 30 years each. But they are far less potent as a result, and they have been largely diluted by time as they were spread over wider areas. That's why video I linked shows radioactive mushrooms outside alienation zone and why people living near the plant experience no significant increase in health problems even though they consume large amounts of local produce.

Those who don't know yet, angelosphere is the local wind power shill. Last time I interacted with him he came down swinging telling me that most if not all modern wind plants do not have a gearbox, and that generators of gearboxless plants don't use neodymium. When asked for which company he was talking about, he quoted GE and Siemens.

When I pointed him towards GE's current sales brochure that is almost fully plants with gear boxes, and the GE studies that showed that they couldn't make large amounts of gearboxless plants because they're both inefficient and require extreme amounts of neodymium, he suggested that GE was in fact wrong.

He had similar bouts of insanity when forced to face reality with other users as well.

The entire point is that current concept of "dangerous" is derived from debunked LNT. We keep using it regardless because we err massively on the side of caution with radiation.

The video I posted shows a concrete, factual demonstration of people who live of far more radioactive food for decades with no significant health complications. When you consider how many carcinogens we pump into our agriculture to boost output, it's not a large surprise, because we serve as their control group - not some hypothetical "no carcinogens at all" human race that doesn't exist.

Radiation is a carcinogen, just like chemical carcinogens are. The whole idea of elevating it to a special status among carcinogens is mainly rooted in our fear because unlike chemicals, we are unable to feel radiation in any way, shape or form. It's an irrational fear.

The main problem was I-131. It's quite nasty, but it has a half life of only eight days. As a result, you have high levels of lethality for short period with thyroid problems caused by it, which abruptly end after it decays.

And now, well over twenty years after the case, it's essentially all gone. The problems are now with long term irradiators like Sr-90 and Cs-137, but these appear to be very much benign in comparison for long term exposure and there wasn't a lot of them released. These are mostly sitting in the soil, and when consumed through those mushrooms appear to come in very low concentrations that do not seem to have the "scary" impact that many thing they do.

At most, they appear to be on par with most of the common chemical carcinogens we are exposed to daily.