Comment Re:Bollocks (Score 1) 142
He's got another America's Cup to ruin.
He's got another America's Cup to ruin.
He is 1/4 of the shareholders.
He makes all his money from shares
His salary is $1.00
He does get 7 million shares a year though. Pittance compared to the 1.1 billion he already owns.
and 900MHz is USA only.
it's used for cell phones everywhere else.
The RAM in my laptop?
Now they can have customers chew through their 1GB data cap in 1/4 of a second! Before you realise you're downloading something, it's wasted all your data.
2.4GHz is perfect for heating anything with a high water content, like tissue. That's why microwave ovens use it.
Disable it via group policy then. gpedit.msc
A virus with access to a dialup modem can make lots of expensive calls.
That's how they made their money back in the 90's.
Not at all.
I'm pretty sure they were not testing them at the maximum operating temperature, or at the worst-case workload (according each drives specific implementation of wear levelling).
Yet going back to the original "tell me the native cell life", it's completely irrelevant to everything you've said.
NAND exhaustion is going to depend on manufacturing tolerance and operating conditions. They figures manufacturers supply are conservative estimates. I'm not at all surprised a handful of drives considerably out perform their specs.
And the native cell endurance has very little to do with it.
Erase block size is more important. As well as over-provisioning.
They don't go in to details, but if they can re-purpose a MLC cell as SLC after it has worn out too much to function as MLC, that's going to increase the drive endurance/decrease amount of required over provisioning.
All of those questions are about the controller and it's wear levelling software, not the flash chips.
In regards to your questions about security, the specific number of times a cell can be erased is irrelevant, only that wear level takes place and physical data is moved around to different locations and not immediately (or potentially, ever) erased from the old location.
In theory, you should just need to delete the encryption key, because the controller encrypts all the data on the flash chips 256bit AES encryption. Again, that's entirely in the controller software.
Dumbass
I don't understand how the native cell life is relevant.
You're not buying flash chips from them, you're buying an SSD. The write endurance of the drive is what matters. How that is achieved is irrelevant.
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.