15 Jan
2008
15 Jan
'08
3:38 p.m.
On Jan 14, 2008 9:16 PM, Oren Beck [email protected] wrote:
- IS a device with 80% of it's estimated "life" used still "Stable" for
archive use? Defined as whatever data is the "Last Writes" remaining stable for the same # of years as a written to "less" device or not. With qualifiers on confidence levels and non-obvious issues.
- Agreement on flag or bit to declare a flash device "Archive" .
AFAIK the device can be read as often as desired with no degradation. Thus, anything less than 99.999% life used up should be fine. Of course the lifetimes are estimates of averages anyway...
Jon.