On: SSD reliability in the real world: Google's experience

[MrBuddyCasino]

"High-end SLC drives are no more reliable that MLC drives."

"None of the drives in the study came anywhere near their write limits"

I thought a major difference between MLC and SLC is the number of write cycles?

[edvinbesic → MrBuddyCasino]

I think you're right, but what they are saying is that it is irrelevant because the drives/blocks are failing due to age, and not amount of write cycle.