Heat Can Heal Dead NAND Flash Cells and Extend Life
Few users may have ever reached the end of life of a flash drive, yet we know that mainstream drives can, realistically, not exceed 100,000 read/write cycles and many cheap flash drives are even rated well below that.
If you are willing to spend money for a high-end drive and a focus on durability, you can approach up to 1 million cycles. However, that's not so much on for a server drive, which may endure more than 1,000 cycles each day.
For extreme cases, there may be a new technology that claims to extend the lifetime of a flash drive to more than 100 million cycles. Even if you were to write and erase data 1,000 times per day, such a drive would last 274 years. Engineers from Macronix developed the technology and said that even 100 million cycles is not the real end. They simply didn't have the resources to test the memory for 1 billion cycles as it would take several months.
The improvement to flash lies in adding onboard heaters to small groups of memory cells, which can in turn heal flash memory cells that degrade over time. In fact, flash memory makers are facing a substantial challenge as this degradation accelerates with smaller cells. However, Macronix said that briefly heating the cell to 800 degrees Celsius can entirely heal the cell, prevent degradation and returning the cell to full operation.
There was no information when the technology could be commercialized.
No, it's nothing like that.
Fresh cookies AND fresh memory... perfect
Thats something you would prolly never think of because you think of heat as the number one enemy to silicon.
No, it's nothing like that.
From Wikipedia: "...with a typical melting range of 90 to 450 °C (190 to 840 °F). It is commonly used in electronics and plumbing, and when manually applied is often done so using a soldering iron or soldering gun. Alloys that melt between 180 and 190 °C (360 and 370 °F) are the most commonly used."
So your oven should be good, though I've heard that you shouldn't heat the card about a certain temperature like 90 °C anyway unless you want to damage the parts that were not rated for higher temps. I probably should do it myself, got an old 8800GT that looks like re-soldering could help it.
Fresh cookies AND fresh memory... perfect
This made me laugh! =D
Placing old hard drives on their side, or upside down also works well, along with a nice low level format. If the motor dies, try "spanking" the hard drive (in a safe place) with the power on, it will jump start the motor again and the drive will once again start chugging along. This may sound like a joke but it actually works great! Use extreme caution, of course.
And after the spanking, the oral sex.
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?271063-SSD-Write-Endurance-25nm-Vs-34nm/page216&post#5380
Putting heaters inside of an SSD, you'd think it would have a hard time getting that hot with the power that a laptop SATA port could output, unless it used a capacitor.
New:2-5W
End of life: 250W
So your oven should be good, though I've heard that you shouldn't heat the card about a certain temperature like 90 °C anyway unless you want to damage the parts that were not rated for higher temps. I probably should do it myself, got an old 8800GT that looks like re-soldering could help it.
I know this is unrelated but:
I have personally baked a 8800gt a 8800gts and a 8800gtx. They all came back to life and worked again. The 8800gt died again about 6 months later, but the 8800gts and the 8800gtx are still going strong now 2 years after thier trip to the oven. I also baked a HD4850. That card had plastic capacitors that all popped and filled my house with a wonderful smelling fog.
My wife was very unhappy.