Storage Longevity Question

Autonomous Vehicles DRIVE AGX Orin DRIVE AGX Orin General
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Please provide the following info (tick the boxes after creating this topic):
Software Version
DRIVE OS 6.0.8.1
DRIVE OS 6.0.6
DRIVE OS 6.0.5
DRIVE OS 6.0.4 (rev. 1)
DRIVE OS 6.0.4 SDK
other

Target Operating System
Linux
QNX
other

Hardware Platform
DRIVE AGX Orin Developer Kit (940-63710-0010-300)
DRIVE AGX Orin Developer Kit (940-63710-0010-200)
DRIVE AGX Orin Developer Kit (940-63710-0010-100)
DRIVE AGX Orin Developer Kit (940-63710-0010-D00)
DRIVE AGX Orin Developer Kit (940-63710-0010-C00)
DRIVE AGX Orin Developer Kit (not sure its number)
other

SDK Manager Version
1.9.3.10904
other

Host Machine Version
native Ubuntu Linux 20.04 Host installed with SDK Manager
native Ubuntu Linux 20.04 Host installed with DRIVE OS Docker Containers
native Ubuntu Linux 18.04 Host installed with DRIVE OS Docker Containers
other

Hello,

Can NVIDIA specify the number of expected erase/write cycles the internal storage of the Drive AGX Orin can handle? Specifically, if reflashing were done on a very regular basis, how many reflash cycles could someone reasonably expect before the storage degrades too much to perform any further flashes?

Thanks

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Main storage UFS has Device Health Descriptor that provides detailed information on the life of a device.

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Hello,

Thanks for the information, a few follow ups:

  • How does one access this descriptor? Is there documentation on how to query the health?
  • While having the current health is very useful for ascertaining where in a lifecycle the storage is, it doesn’t answer the question of how many erase/write cycles we can expect - as a bad ballpark approximation, do you have any information on the erase/write cycles the flash parts are rated for?

Thanks