Re: Alternative to Optical Storage????

On Sat, 9/28/2024 6:56 AM, Nux Vomica wrote:

On Fri, 27 Sep 2024 21:32:07 -0400, Paul wrote:
 

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Once you get up to a certain size, they tend to use SSD controllers
inside, then a USB converter connected to that. This can radically
improve the storage characteristic. The SSD controller has static
and dynamic wear leveling. Very few USB sticks have that in a USB
controller (but there are some).
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The fact that wear leveling and trimming are required only indicates
that SSD is an inferior and useless technology.
 
Superior and stable NAND ICs are available but they are enormously
expensive and the grubbing capitalists that control the consumer market
would never consider them.
 
This is the reason that I do not use SSDs of any kind and still use
only HDD spinning rust on all my machines.
 
For long-term storage SSDs are simply unthinkable.

Micron had some 32GB SLC flash chips.
But they may have been discontinued before
any number of them shipped. An Amazon seller claimed
to be selling an SLC 32GB flash stick, which is normally
not something you can find. And they mentioned the
part number of the flash, and it really existed.
But today I can't find it any more. SLC would be
good for 100K writes. The more normal TLC or QLC
are a lot lower. You can find tiny (industrial) SLC
flash sticks, but maybe 1GB or 2GB or so. Legacy stuff.
The 32GB one was unusual.

   Paul