Re: Reports from SSD purgatory

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Tomas Vondra <tv(at)fuzzy(dot)cz> wrote:
> On 24 Srpen 2011, 20:48, gnuoytr(at)rcn(dot)com wrote:
>
>> It's worth knowing exactly what that means.  Turns out that NAND quality
>> is price specific.  There's gooduns and baduns.  Is this a failure in the
>> controller(s) or the NAND?
>
> Why is that important? It's simply a failure of electronics and it has
> nothing to do with the wear limits. It simply fails without prior warning
> from the SMART.
>
>> Also, given that PG is *nix centric and support for TRIM is win centric,
>> having that makes a big difference in performance.
>
> Windows specific? What do you mean? TRIM is a low-level way to tell the
> drive 'this block is empty and may be used for something else' - it's just
> another command sent to the drive. It has to be supported by the
> filesystem, though (e.g. ext4/btrfs support it).

Well, it's a fair point that TRIM support is probably more widespread
on windows.

merlin