> It doesn't require wear leveling like SSDs do. It's like RAM in that regard
Are you sure? The article lists a fixed durability of 30 drive writes over 5 years. If it wasn’t wear leveling, those 30 writes would be reached very quickly on specific locations.
30 drive writes per day, which is over 50K writes total. But at RAM speeds you could hit 50K writes in no time (XPointHammer? you heard it here first), so wear leveling would probably be a good idea. And here's my favorite wear leveling paper: http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/files/us-moinqur...
That's really interesting. At around 12:30 minutes in the talk I linked the speaker, Rob Dickinson (from Intel), says it doesn't need it. I wonder which is correct.
Are you sure? The article lists a fixed durability of 30 drive writes over 5 years. If it wasn’t wear leveling, those 30 writes would be reached very quickly on specific locations.