• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Because drives use ECC and spare sectors to give the illusion of reliability just like QLC.

    Here is reliability vs drive size.

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      6 months ago

      Decades ago, a collegue of mine (who once worked in hard drive design) said, “Oh, hard drives stopped reading 1’s and 0’s years ago. Now they compute the probability that the data just read was a 1 or a 0.”