On: Micron's 232-layer NAND enables 2TB flash chips th...

[cowtools]

1k writes sounds good enough for consumer hardware I suppose. As long as there's some some type of S.M.A.R.T. system to warn the user before it wears out.

[gruez → cowtools]

usually it goes into read-only mode when it wears out, so there's no data loss.

[cowtools → gruez]

that's fantastic actually! One problem might be that programs don't anticipate this behavior, like if it wears out while a filesystem is still syncing

[blibble → cowtools]

all modern filesystems are either journalled or always consistent on disk, so shouldn't be a problem if it dies during

worst case you have to copy it to another disk and replay the journal