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Re: Emails from IBM Announcement Letters <gasm@xxxxxxxxxx>

Fortunately it is the former! A 1 would mean that every block on the drive could be written every day for 5 years. So 10 means 10 times per day for five years.

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On 11/21/2017 3:21 PM, Rob Berendt wrote:
Exactly what does this mean?
<snip>These drives are rated at 10 DWPD (Drive Writes Per Day) calculated
over a five-year period.</snip>
Does that mean if it is a 1.2TB drive you can perform an average of 1.2TB
* 10 writes per day over a five year period? Or does it mean you can
perform an average of 10 writes, which can be as little as one character,
per day, over a 5 year period? I'm hoping it's not the latter.

Kind of like "Write Rarely, Read Many"?


Rob Berendt


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