Comments on: Intel, Samsung comment on flash, SSD reliability

The two companies discuss reliability challenges facing solid state drive makers.

[kai6novice]

If SSD has that problem. Doesn't that mean our thumb drive, SD card, CompactFlash card ... etc all have the same problem? Why don't OS be smart enough to manage our usage of SSD. So that our PC would have both HD and SSD. And our OS will determine if data should store in HD or SSD. And keep track of how many time a cell has been written. And spread the write cycle among the cells. And maximum the life of a SSD. I think software should be smart enough to do that...

[htcstech]

Development will sort the issues out eventually.
What is interesting is that CF2* and CF4 cards can now be used for paging/virtual memory/swap files with the right controller card. These are relatively cheap and in operation reduces wear on the HD and makes the machine faster (around 32mb/s).

*Compact Flash

[hellsyes]

kai6novice,

Did you read the article? The flash controllers already do wear-leveling. They are saying that most of the failures are in the CONTROLLER SILICON. At least thats what the guy from Samsung is claiming.

[brando20002003]

i think that cpu are tapped out you need a realy fast hard drive to keep up with the super fast cpu. intel know this but this is a must have. image how fast you can scan one of these ssd. the 100,000 cycle time seems to be not replace standed hard drive but i would keep a close eye these hard drives. sure there are problems there alway problems but i'm sure someone well work it out.

[Magallanes]

So, it is not smart to jump over ssd, not for a while cause :ssd it's expensive, unstable (no matter who is the guilty) and limited in size.