Facebook's SSD findings: Failure, fatigue and the data center

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Keep in mind, this study was based on SSDs used in Facebook's data center. Not the same workload a consumer SSD would go through. Still, there's a lot of interesting takeaways. The heat issue is really interesting. Seems like SSDs are much more sensitive to temperature than hard drives.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/facebooks-ssd-experience/

SSDs revolutionized data storage, even though we know little about how well they work. Now researchers at Facebook and Carnegie-Mellon share millions of hours of SSD experience