Questions SSD

ads-ee said:

You must like to argue for no other reason than to argue...

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I think it is you who likes to argue, I remember my first interaction with you was over some unimportant point in this thread. I can find it if you want.

ads-ee said:

That wasn't the point I was making, maybe you should read my post more carefully. You were claiming wrongly that the NVMe is no faster than an SATA SSD drive and used the 120GB Western Digital Green M.2 to claim that it matches the performance of a Samsung SATA SSD.

So make up you mind either talk about SATA M.2 drives or NVMe M.2 drives or SATA SSD drives, but don't go switching between them like they are all the same thing.

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I claimed "NVMe are believed to be faster than SSD". What wrong have I said? M.2 is a connector type for NVMe.

ads-ee said:

I don't think you understand how much charge is required to change the state of a flash cell. To generate that much charge externally from an EMP will likely damage the rest of the die way before the charge in the flash cell is changed.

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Theory often times doesn't line up with real world. The only way to find out if it'll erase or damage, is if we try. If you want I can try it on a microSD card or thumb drive. I have a similar EMP gun and I'm willing test a card or thumb drive for that.

ads-ee said:

So what is the point you are trying to make?

The durability of a flash drive is DIRECTLY related to how well they designed their wear leveling algorithm and how many write/erase cycles the flash chips used in the SSD are capable of. The manufactures base their numbers on those two aspects. You seem to be saying the manufacture can miraculously take a flash part with 100,000 write/erase cycles and can then turn around an put the durability of their drive is 50 years....
Well I guess they could if they claim you only change data on your drive ~5 times a day.

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What part of my comment gave you that? My information to OP was to provide details about the durability, as the OP seemed particularly concerned about write/erase cycle. I gave him solid information on that, which the OP can use to decide, whereas you and others just gave opinion.

ads-ee said:

The point I'm making is a manufacturer can put almost any claim they want on their brochures if nobody can prove otherwise. And things like drives are very hard to prove they meet the durability quoted on the product documentation. i.e. how may people are going to go buy a $150 1TB SSD and write/erase the drive over and over till it dies just so they can claim their drive didn't meet the durability mentioned? If you decide to do this start a blog here and report your findings for every drive on the market it will be very useful information for the rest of us.

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Why should I waste my time doing that, there are review sites who do it, I believe I read some thorough reviews who wrote and erased random data on SSD to see if it lives up to the claim of the manufacturer and if I remember correctly, Samsung and Intel out performed their warranty claims. Manufacturers can lie and make exaggerated claims, that is what my comments cautioned the OP, whereas you and others seemed to suggest OP to make a blind investment SSD.

Well it seems discussing this further is pointless as you don't seem to comprehend the issue I had with some of your posts.

Thanks for the entertaining discussion.