[Discuss] SSD

[Guy Gold]

On Thu,May 31 10:31:AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> 
> The MTBF of SSD's is sort of a black art.  When they first came out years
> ago, they posted the same MTBF, but in actuality it was much worse because
> windows kept writing the same disk block over and over, which is fatal to
> SSD's.  But they fixed this problem with load leveling (or wear balancing)
> in hardware in the SSD, mapping virtual blocks to physical blocks. 

I was told that the equivalent feature in Linux, that helps prolong the life of an
SSD , started being available from Kernel 3.0 and above, true or false ?