[TrevorJ]

>I just love how Google datacenters are somehow "the real world"

They totally are though, especially to the HN crowd where a lot of us may be putting hardware in data centers.

I agree that this isn't going to give us a clear picture of what to expect out of an SSD in say, a netbook or something. On the other hand, data from a million SSD's reported by one company in a controlled environment is a hell of a control group if you want to go test factors like temperature, etc.