Source : Digitimes Currently we are living through a wave of advertisements of SSD disks. Each manufacturer puts forward more or less enticing figures for data transfer speeds and also for the lifespan.
In order to keep everyone honest, Taiwanese manufacturers have decided to create the SSD Alliance; the goal is to define standard tests so that everyone speaks the same language and that the customers can really compare the products.
They have already brought out version 1.0 these tests, based on those practised by the JEDEC, the authority charged with defining the standards of random access memory; they invite the maximum number of manufacturers to join them.
One will be able to thus know if a MTBF of 4 million hours means that the disk will function at full capacity for tens of years or if, after this period, the capacity has deteriorated to a single byte.
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