This is the thread that started him on his adventure:
https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/i-forced-a-16-year-old-64gb-ssd-to-write-1-petabyte-and-it-didnt-die.350145/He has since spammed several other forums with updated results that have no reference to the original thread. It seems that his intro is basically just technobabble. His intention seems to be to prove that SSD controllers are robust. To me, he's just proving what everyone already knows. Moreover, if these writes truly are "ghost data" writes or "virtual cache operations" which don't arrive at the NAND flash, then why bother sending TRIM commands at all?
Maybe there is a more detailed explanation in his hand-written scrawl, but my eyes hurt when I try to read it.
He writes "if max is 18gb per trim", which suggests that he doesn't have control over the TRIM operations. AIUI, the DATA SET MANAGEMENT ATA command requires that the host specifies the LBA ranges that are to be unmapped, so who/what is in control of TRIM-ing?
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By exploiting a massive storage telemetry loophole in Windows 11 using a high velocity 5 second macro loop, I managed to trick the system into aggressively logging massive "ghost data" writes directly to the drive's odometer. Because these are virtual cache operations, the actual data vanishes into thin air before it can physically destroy the legacy MLC NAND flash cells.
my project completely debunks standard factory TBW limits as a hardware kill-switch and shows just how incredibly resilient legacy, over-engineered storage controllers really are.
I officially obliterated the 32-bit integer limit weeks ago. Next Testing the limits of a 48-bit register!
Remember its a telemetry and firmware test, not a physical destruction test.
The purpose isn't to burn the physical NAND to ashes; it's to see how a budget 2010 storage brain handles modern, enterprise-level digital stress under Windows 11. The fact that it crossed a Petabyte without a single firmware exception or interface crash is the real victory here!"
Also I set a auto click for every 5 seconds to trim it, my research is found amazing things so far, but all I can say sata 2 technically is durable much so as today's ssds,
Place bets where it may roll back to 0 or max out, I'll let u know
Approx Max per trim is 18gb that every 5 seconds
Minutes in a day: 60 minutes multiplied by 24 hours equals 1 440 minutes.Total daily data: 216 GB per minute multiplied by 1 440 minutes equals 311 040 GB. That is if max is 18gb per trim.
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