About the “Firefox Is Eating Your SSD” Story
A couple of weeks ago, I saw a post pop up on Twitter a few times about Firefox performing excessive writes to SSDs, which total up to 32GBs in a single…
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Oct 5, 2016 | Storage | 16
A couple of weeks ago, I saw a post pop up on Twitter a few times about Firefox performing excessive writes to SSDs, which total up to 32GBs in a single…
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Mar 16, 2015 | Storage | 16
The Samsung 840 Pro was the last SSD standing in The Tech Report's experiment with a final score of over 2.4 petabytes written. Granted, only one (or two in the...
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Mar 10, 2015 | Cases and Cooling | 0
Seven years ago [H]ard|OCP reviewed a SilverStone Olympia 1000W PSU and it has seen regular usage since then, which lead them to wonder if there have been any changes now that the…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Feb 16, 2015 | Storage | 3
The sample size for the tests at KitGuru to see how well the OCZ ARC 100 SSDs stand up to their warranty are only five drives, now four as one...
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Sep 22, 2014 | General Tech, Storage | 9
Many drives have died over the last year and a bit. The Tech Report has been torturing SSDs with writes until they drop. Before a full petabyte of data was written, three…
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Jun 17, 2014 | General Tech, Storage | 0
In The Tech Report's ongoing SSD endurance challenge, three SSDs are soldiering forward. We have reached the thousand-terabyte mark, which is at least five times more than any of the...
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Jan 10, 2014 | Storage | 7
The Tech Report's attempts to test SSDs to destruction have hit the 500TB mark, with three two-bit MLC NAND drives and one three-bit TLC model all trying to survive. They are using…
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Nov 26, 2013 | General Tech, Storage | 5
Update 11/26/2013 @ 11:20pm Allyn weighed in, particularly about the Samsung drives. One thing that he notes (as does Tech Report in the original article) is that Samsung might just be more…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Nov 4, 2013 | Storage | 0
The Tech Report have hit the 200TB mark on their testing of ~250GB SSDs from Corsair, Intel, Samsung and Kingston and the drives are starting to feel it. At the 100TB mark…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Sep 6, 2013 | Storage | 0
The Tech Report have seen some mixed results from their SSD endurance testing using Anvil's Storage Utility. There has not been any mentionable performance degradation for any of the SSDs...
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Aug 22, 2013 | Storage | 6
The Tech Report is currently testing several SSDs to destruction, or at least trying to. They are using a new tool called Anvil's Storage Utilities which includes a test designed...
Read Moreby Allyn Malventano | Feb 20, 2013 | Editorial, Storage | 11
Last year, I posted a rebuttal to a paper describing the future of flash memory as ‘bleak’. The paper went through great...
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