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Originally Posted by Arkryal
96 writes to a sector per day with a limitation of 300,000 writes yields about 10 years of usage, so I say it's a non-issue.
However, I will concede on the other points, you've definitely done your homework. Good to see people here with a real background and enthusiasm for technology. I usually have to spell everything out, it's good to see some people here just "get it" without further explanation.
You're right about wear leveling, it has a maximum potential of prolonging the life of about 15% of the media, doesn't really do much. If you'd push it to it's limits anyway, 15% is nothing, if you wouldn't it doesn't matter. It really is a marketing word more than a technology, so I'll agree with that.
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I use to do data recovery, worked in a cleanroom for 3 years, so ya, I know more then the average joe. It's not a marketing word, they really test the crap out of these drives. One thingy the do to every drive is run it in a 110 deg room at full force for 12 hours, enterprise drives recieve 48 hour tests. From all my years of data recovery, rarely did I see SCSI drives, and when I did, they were wrecked and unrecoverable... SATA was second, and PATA was 1st as far as recoveries went....SCSI is 1000% more reliable imo.