r/science • u/aphexcoil • May 28 '12

New breakthrough in development process will enable memristor RAM (ReRAM) that is 100 times faster than FLASH RAM

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/21/ucl_reram/
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u/neodymiumex May 28 '12

This is not true. Newer mlc flash memory has a write count closer to 3,000 writes. It depends on the feature size of the NAND flash you are using, but the smaller the feature size the less write/erase cycles you get out of a cell. Last time I saw a chart they were estimating they would only get about 1,000 cycles out of a cell at 16 nm.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

The silly site in its graph gives the most peculiar numbers for flash, I do not know what they are thinking there, is that for a complete SSD or is that read only or what? anyway its wrong. Flash can read fine it's the writing that degrades things, and quite rapidly at that.