Are there tools to probe flash controllers for usage history?

[Monty J. Harder]

On Jan 13, 2008 7:16 PM, Oren Beck <orenbeck at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2. Is it possible to somehow log write to device events as a file entry?
> Since many devices have a Write indicator, some way of probing that
> indicator to increment a counter, then some estimation of drive wear would
> be captured as a human readable numerical.
>

Doing so would seem to double the number of write-to-device events.  How
about a way to query the device for how many such events had occurred.  We
could set up a protocol.  Call it "Systematic Tracking Using Performance
Indication Data".  Yeah, that should work.
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