Anyone know of anything comparable for SSDs?
When we were getting ready to move some production systems over to SSDs we took one drive and wrote random data to it until it died. After every complete write cycle we collected the SMART attributes so we would know what a dying drive looked like.
[1]: http://techreport.com/review/26523/the-ssd-endurance-experim...
99% of cases SSD simply vanishes from your system eating all the data forever.